Virtual Library
Publishers
Selected bookstores
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This page contains a selected list of bookstores, most of which
provide on-line information, together with other relevant
links.
If you know the ISBN
(International Standard Book Number)
for a book, you may
search for entries
(also available as a frames version for
parallel ISBN searching)
directly at a number of selected on-line book stores.
See also the following list of
bookstores, including
on-line stores.
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1BookStreet.com.
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A1 Books.
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abiszet Bücherservice GmbH, Germany.
Nearly 1 million in two catalogues.
(In German.)
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Advanced Book Exchange Inc. -
buying and selling out-of-print, used, rare and antiquarian books.
Includes a
book search facility.
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Alibris -
rare, used and hard-to-find books.
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Alphabet Street Books at
Pointers, UK.
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alt.bookstore -
search 2 million books on-line.
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Alternative Textbooks
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Amazon.com Books - 2.5 million titles.
Highly recommended excellent, fast and comprehensive resource!
See also
Amazon.co.uk UK site.
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Ancient History Publications, KY, USA.
Archaeology books.
20% discount to libraries, scholars, professors, teachers,
organizations and universities.
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Asian Rare Books, New York, USA.
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Bagchee Associates, India.
Indian book dealer.
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Barnes & Noble Inc. Booksellers, USA.
Over 400,000 in-stock titles.
Search over 1 million titles.
Includes an on-line live events, book forum, etc. (free registration).
See also
store locator by ZIP code and
Yahoo entry.
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Bibliocity.
Rare and collectable books from antiquarian booksellers.
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Bibliofind - 3 million old books, used books, rare
books, out of print books, antiquarian books, offered by over
1000 booksellers around the world.
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Blackwell's Academic Booksellers,
Oxford -
see also
background information.
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BogGuide - 16,000 Danish books. (In Danish.)
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bol.com European Internet bookstores.
(UK,
Germany, France, Netherlands, ...)
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BookBrowse.com, USA.
Compare prices from 25 Internet Bookstores.
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BookFinder.com - find new, used, rare and out-of-print books.
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Bookpages - UK books, including searching.
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Book Passage, Corte Madera (near San Francisco),
California, USA.
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The
Book People, UK.
Handpicked bestsellers discounted.
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BookPool. Discounted technical books.
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Booksamillion.com, USA.
Millionaire's Club gives 10% off every book.
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BookSearch. US rare and out-of-print search specialist.
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BookServe.
International Internet bookstore
(English,
German and Dutch).
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The
Book Shelf, Paris, Illinois, USA.
Includes used books - see also
links to related sites.
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BookSite - 250,000 titles on-line.
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The
Booksmith, San Francisco, California,USA.
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Books Now Inc. Virtual Bookstore.
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Book Stacks Unlimited, Inc.
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Searchable catalogue of over 500,000 titles.
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BookWeb, including a
bookstore directory,
sponsored by the
American Booksellers Association.
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BookZone - including
Audio Publishers Association.
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Bookzone, UK - around 200,000 titles.
(Not related to BookZone above.)
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Boolah Book Store - compare
Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Borders prices.
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Borders, USA.
Books, music, café.
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Brazilian Books - books from Brazil in Portuguese.
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British Books @ American Prices.
British books imported to the US.
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Business & Computer Bookstore.
(On-line since November 1994.)
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CGI-BIN.COM. WebWheels Technical Bookstore.
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A
Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books, Bay Area, California, USA.
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Cherry Valley Books.
Children's and parenting books.
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Cody's Books, USA. 140,000
books on-line.
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Computer Book Express, Lehigh Valley, PA, USA.
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The
Computer Bookshop, UK.
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Computer Literacy Bookshops, USA.
Computer and electronics books.
Includes a searchable
database with stock indication at individual stores.
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Computer Manuals Ltd.
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The
Co-op Bookshop, Australia.
Over 45 bookshops nationwide, 1 million titles searchable on-line.
Australia's first on-line academic and general bookstore.
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C.U. Cyber Bookshop,
Chulalongkorn University Book Center, Bangkok,Thailand.
100,000 titles, including 80,000 in Thai.
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DealPilot.com - compare prices on-line.
(Was
Acses.)
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Dillons, UK.
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Enterprise City book and magazine stores, UK.
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Foyles,
Charing Cross Road,
London, UK.
(Over a million titles.)
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Fred Hanna's Bookstore, Dublin, Ireland.
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Future Fantasy Bookstore,
A Bookstore of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Mysteries.
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Heffers,
Cambridge.
1.9 million book catalogue, 300,000 books in stock.
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Heritage Book Shop, Inc.
Rare books and manuscripts.
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IEEE Bookstore.
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Indian Books Centre.
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Internet Book Shop (IBS), UK.
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Intertain Internet Bookstore - 320,000+ titles.
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ISBN.I.am - comparison of on-line
USA and UK book prices based on an ISBN.
See also
BookSearch.I.am for Amazon USA and UK book searching.
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James Thin Ltd, Edinburgh, Scotland.
(Also Volume One bookshops in England.)
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JF-Lehmanns Fachbuchhandlung, Germany.
(In German.)
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Laissez-Faire Books.
"The World's Largest Selection of Books on Liberty."
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Large Print Books.
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Libreria Luigi Druetto, Turin, Italy.
200,000 titles.
(In Italian.)
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Lime Tree Books, UK.
British books, 60,000 titles stocked.
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The
Literary Guild.
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The
McGraw-Hill Bookstore, New York, USA.
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Mignight Special Bookstore, Santa Monica, California, USA.
Political and social science, 90,000 titles,
searchable.
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The
Modern Book Company, London, UK.
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Moe's Books, Berkeley, California, USA.
Out-of-print and antiquarian book.
Free book search.
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MX Bookfinder.
Search for 3 million out-of-print books
across a number of on-line bookstores.
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Natural History Book Service (NHBS), UK.
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Open Book Systems, a division of Online BookStore
(OBS -
English, German, French, Romanian) -
see
bookshelves.
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Pickabook, UK.
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Port Townsend Discount Books, Port Townsend, Washington, USA.
1000's if discount books. (40-90% off).
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Post Mortem Books, Sussex, UK.
Crime and mystery fiction.
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Powell's Books, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Largest independent US bookseller.
Over 1 million used, new, hard-to-find and antiquarian titles in stock.
Includes on-line
searching.
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Proxis - 2.6 million English, Dutch and French books, Belgium.
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Red House Books, UK.
Childrens Book Club.
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Read Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
Irish Internet Bookstore - Irish interest books.
Browse the database or use the
book search service (by real people!).
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Robert Foyle Books, UK.
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Science Express - computer book specialists, including a
catalogue search.
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Simon & Schuster's SuperStore.
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Softpro Computer Books.
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Spree Books.
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Specialty Books, Inc., Athens, Ohio, USA.
Mainly for distance and continuing education students.
Search
over half a million general titles on-line.
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Thornton's Bookshop, Oxford, UK.
Oxford's oldest bookshop,
70,000 volumes including many secondhand books.
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UCI Bookstore, Irvine, California, USA.
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University Press Books/Berkeley.
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Waterstone's, UK.
See also
Yahoo site.
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WHSmith, UK.
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WordsWorth Books including
searching (100,000s of books in stock).
See also:
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Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet.
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Access to Booksellers list from
Bookport.
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Best Book Buys -
search for the cheapest book prices (using ISBN) in a range of on-line
bookstores.
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BestBookDeal.com - on-line book price comparision service.
(Good but requires recent browser.)
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Books AtoZ publishing resources.
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BookWire:
Booksellers and
book information indexes.
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The
On-line Books Page.
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Book-of-the-Month Club editor's choice, USA.
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Book Industry Communication, UK.
Includes a list of
UK/Irish booksellers and library suppliers, etc.
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Canadian Booksellers Association, including
bookstores.
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An Online Literature Library of
classics (saves going to a bookshop!).
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Evelyn C. Leeper's Bookstore Lists including
Bookstores in the United Kingdom
(comprehensive but large), etc.
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Fine Press Book Association
and Four Rivers Books.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for the
rec.arts.books
newsgroup.
See also
here.
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Search for "books" discussion from
Deja.com.
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Outcry, MO, USA.
A media and book review magazine.
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Search for "bookstores" and
book search services from
Yahoo.
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Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA.
Holds c17 million books.
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British Library, London, UK.
Holds c13 million volumes,
including every new book published in Britain.
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1stBooks Library. Virtual books on-line and via email (many free).
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Price Compare or Search Online Bookstores by ISBN.
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Best Big On-line Bookstores.
See
Bookstore Chart and
Book Search Engine Test Page.
Audio books:
Goto further bookstores.
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Jonathan Bowen
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