Front Matter
Table of Contents
Editor
Full Page Ads
Editor
Issues, News, & Goings On
If Rumors Were Horses
Katina Strauch
From Your (WWW) Editor
Katina Strauch
Letters to the Editor
Editor
Features
To Buy or Not To Buy: The Cost Implications of Purchasing Paperbacks
Ed Goedeken, Ivan Hanthorn, and Pam Rebarcak
Paperbacks On Approval
John M. Haar
Paperback Conundrums
Heather S. Miller
Op Ed: The Negatives in Librarianship
Barbara C. Dean
On the Street: A Survey of ATG Subscribers - Do You Prefer Paperbacks or Clothbacks When Both Are Available?
Kathern J. Miraglia, Barbara C. Dean, Eamon T. Fennessy, and Anne Jennings
ATG Interviews
Interview with Mary Anne Liebert
Katina Strauch
Anatomy of a Sale: A Discussion with Fred Philipp
Katina Strauch
Interview with Michael Markwith
Katina Strauch
Reference Interview - Ken Kister
Tom Gilson
Interview with GraceAnne DeCandido
Katina Strauch
Profile Encouraged
Publishing
Book Pricing Update: A Closer Look at the Humanities
Celia Scher Wagner
Book Reviews
Paul Gleason and Barry Fast
Cases of Note
Anne F. Jennings
Publisher Bestsellers: Purdue University Press
Julia A. Gammon and Nancy C. Essig
Marketing to Libraries: Librarians' Views
Vikki Medaglia
Publisher's Profile: Primary Source Media
Matt Naumann
Bookselling and Vending
And They Were There: Reports of Meetings
Sever Bordeianu and Julia Gelfand
Bet You Missed It
Rosann Bazirjian
Biz of Acq: Negative Decisions
Jack Montgomery
International Dateline
Dieke van Wijnen
Group Therapy: Librarians Who Don't Keep Appointments
Rosann Bazirjian
Technology and Standards
Where To Buy CD-ROMs
Norman Desmarais
HTML or How to be the Duke of URL
Rebecca Bauerschmidt
Chaos: Book Industry Communications - Recent Activities
Sandra K. Paul
Doc Aquis: Materials Vendors' Online Services
Mary McLaren and Barbara Hale
Drinking from the Firehose: Everybody's Doin' It - The World Wide Web and Why It's So Popular
Eleanor I. Cook