It was a typical bookstore day. Typical, because no two days are ever the same. Today's mystery appeared to have invalid ISBNs. Similar to a car with the wrong license plates, the battered 1982 academic book about Nigerian crime had an eBay ISBN for vegan soup recipes printed in 2019. Was this simply another story data entry error story? Or was this an Oxford University Press Counterfeit from Nigeria?

by Jeffrey A. Rothermel Captain's Log August 15-16, 2026 Seminole Valley Farm Museum One weekend a year, I close my environmentally controlled and comfortable showroom and travel north to the humid and misty riverbanks of the Cedar Rapids. This was my fifth year of selling books from a tent in harmony with mother nature and her occasional outbursts. Why dare the misfortune of damaged paper from moisture? Believe it or not... nothing better than a rainy outdoor weekend of a

Bookselling in a snowstorm. Nine inches of snow fell in Iowa City, Iowa on small business Saturday. The storm disrupted in person book browsing on Small Business Saturday, but not internet book orders that continued to surge.