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.

1BookStreet.com.
A1 Books.
abiszet Bücherservice GmbH, Germany. Nearly 1 million in two catalogues. (In German.)
Advanced Book Exchange Inc. - buying and selling out-of-print, used, rare and antiquarian books. Includes a book search facility.
Alibris - rare, used and hard-to-find books.
Alphabet Street Books at Pointers, UK.
alt.bookstore - search 2 million books on-line.
Alternative Textbooks
Amazon.com Books - 2.5 million titles. Highly recommended excellent, fast and comprehensive resource! See also Amazon.co.uk UK site.
US search:

UK search:
Ancient History Publications, KY, USA. Archaeology books. 20% discount to libraries, scholars, professors, teachers, organizations and universities.
Asian Rare Books, New York, USA.
Bagchee Associates, India. Indian book dealer.
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.
Bibliocity. Rare and collectable books from antiquarian booksellers.
Bibliofind - 3 million old books, used books, rare books, out of print books, antiquarian books, offered by over 1000 booksellers around the world.
Blackwell's Academic Booksellers, Oxford - see also background information.
BogGuide - 16,000 Danish books. (In Danish.)
bol.com European Internet bookstores. (UK, Germany, France, Netherlands, ...)
BookBrowse.com, USA. Compare prices from 25 Internet Bookstores.
BookFinder.com - find new, used, rare and out-of-print books.
Bookpages - UK books, including searching.
Book Passage, Corte Madera (near San Francisco), California, USA.
The Book People, UK. Handpicked bestsellers discounted.
BookPool. Discounted technical books.
Booksamillion.com, USA. Millionaire's Club gives 10% off every book.
BookSearch. US rare and out-of-print search specialist.
BookServe. International Internet bookstore (English, German and Dutch).
The Book Shelf, Paris, Illinois, USA. Includes used books - see also links to related sites.
BookSite - 250,000 titles on-line.
The Booksmith, San Francisco, California,USA.
Books Now Inc. Virtual Bookstore.
Book Stacks Unlimited, Inc. - Searchable catalogue of over 500,000 titles.
BookWeb, including a bookstore directory, sponsored by the American Booksellers Association.
BookZone - including Audio Publishers Association.
Bookzone, UK - around 200,000 titles. (Not related to BookZone above.)
Boolah Book Store - compare Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Borders prices.
Borders, USA. Books, music, café.
Brazilian Books - books from Brazil in Portuguese.
British Books @ American Prices. British books imported to the US.
Business & Computer Bookstore. (On-line since November 1994.)
CGI-BIN.COM. WebWheels Technical Bookstore.
A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books, Bay Area, California, USA.
Cherry Valley Books. Children's and parenting books.
Cody's Books, USA. 140,000 books on-line.
Computer Book Express, Lehigh Valley, PA, USA.
The Computer Bookshop, UK.
Computer Literacy Bookshops, USA. Computer and electronics books. Includes a searchable database with stock indication at individual stores.
Computer Manuals Ltd.
The Co-op Bookshop, Australia. Over 45 bookshops nationwide, 1 million titles searchable on-line. Australia's first on-line academic and general bookstore.
C.U. Cyber Bookshop, Chulalongkorn University Book Center, Bangkok,Thailand. 100,000 titles, including 80,000 in Thai.
DealPilot.com - compare prices on-line. (Was Acses.)
Dillons, UK.
Enterprise City book and magazine stores, UK.
Foyles, Charing Cross Road, London, UK. (Over a million titles.)
Fred Hanna's Bookstore, Dublin, Ireland.
Future Fantasy Bookstore, A Bookstore of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Mysteries.
Heffers, Cambridge. 1.9 million book catalogue, 300,000 books in stock.
Heritage Book Shop, Inc. Rare books and manuscripts.
IEEE Bookstore.
Indian Books Centre.
Internet Book Shop (IBS), UK.
Intertain Internet Bookstore - 320,000+ titles.
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.
ISBN search:
James Thin Ltd, Edinburgh, Scotland. (Also Volume One bookshops in England.)
JF-Lehmanns Fachbuchhandlung, Germany. (In German.)
Laissez-Faire Books. "The World's Largest Selection of Books on Liberty."
Large Print Books.
Libreria Luigi Druetto, Turin, Italy. 200,000 titles. (In Italian.)
Lime Tree Books, UK. British books, 60,000 titles stocked.
The Literary Guild.
The McGraw-Hill Bookstore, New York, USA.
Mignight Special Bookstore, Santa Monica, California, USA. Political and social science, 90,000 titles, searchable.
The Modern Book Company, London, UK.
Moe's Books, Berkeley, California, USA. Out-of-print and antiquarian book. Free book search.
MX Bookfinder. Search for 3 million out-of-print books across a number of on-line bookstores.
Natural History Book Service (NHBS), UK.
Open Book Systems, a division of Online BookStore (OBS - English, German, French, Romanian) - see bookshelves.
Pickabook, UK.
Port Townsend Discount Books, Port Townsend, Washington, USA. 1000's if discount books. (40-90% off).
Post Mortem Books, Sussex, UK. Crime and mystery fiction.
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.
Proxis - 2.6 million English, Dutch and French books, Belgium.
Red House Books, UK. Childrens Book Club.
Read Ireland, Dublin, Ireland. Irish Internet Bookstore - Irish interest books. Browse the database or use the book search service (by real people!).
Robert Foyle Books, UK.
Science Express - computer book specialists, including a catalogue search.
Simon & Schuster's SuperStore.
Softpro Computer Books.
Spree Books.
Specialty Books, Inc., Athens, Ohio, USA. Mainly for distance and continuing education students. Search over half a million general titles on-line.
Thornton's Bookshop, Oxford, UK. Oxford's oldest bookshop, 70,000 volumes including many secondhand books.
UCI Bookstore, Irvine, California, USA.
University Press Books/Berkeley.
Waterstone's, UK. See also Yahoo site.
WHSmith, UK.
WordsWorth Books including searching (100,000s of books in stock).