Fairs & events

The second in the new series of seminars organised jointly by the Institute of English Studies (London University) and the ABA Educational Trust will take the form of a round-table discussion given by some of the younger, more articulate and more digitally-savvy members of the rare book trade - Natalie Galustian, Justin Croft, Simon Beattie and Jonathan Kearns. 

Topics included will be the best (and worst) places to look for books on the internet, the merit and trustworthiness of internet descriptions, what we are really being told, the bonuses as well as the perils and pitfalls of instant collecting gratification, the skills of searching, what the apparently transparent market is actually telling us, and the explosion of social media marketing - blogs, facebook, twitter and all the rest. 

Natalie Galustian can be found at Natalie Galustian Rare Books 

Justin Croft at Justin Croft Antiquarian Books 

Simon Beattie here at Simon Beattie

and Jonathan Kearns here on his blog for Adrian Harrington Rare Books - Bibliodeviancy.