Selected bookstores

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This page contains a selected list of bookstores that provide on-line information, together with other relevant links. A number of book search websites are also included.

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.

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1BookStreet.com.
A1 Books.
AAABookSearch, USA. A book search and price comparison service for USA and Canada.
Abebooks (Advanced Book Exchange Inc.), USA. 40 million used, rare and out-of-print books.
abiszet Bücherservice GmbH, Germany. Nearly 1 million in two catalogues. (In German.)
AddALL book search and price comparison. 40+ bookstores.
Alibris - rare, used and hard-to-find books.
All Top Books, UK.
Alphabet Street Books at Pointers, UK.
alt.bookstore - search 2 million books on-line.
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.
Another Bookshop, UK. Independent bookshop, over 300,000 books.
Asian Rare Books, New York, USA.
Bagchee Associates, India. Indian book dealer.
BargainBookStores.com. 50,000 books, save up to 90%!
Barnes & Noble Inc. Booksellers, USA. Over 400,000 in-stock books Search over 1 million titles. Includes an on-line live events, book forum, etc. (free registration).
Bibliocity. Rare and collectable books from antiquarian booksellers.
Bibliofind - rare and used books from Amazon.
Biblion bookshop of bookshops. Rare and antiquarian books.
Blackwell's Academic Booksellers, <""http://www.geocities.com/Athens/4824/uk.htm#oxford"> 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.
BookCrossing.com. Free your books and track them using a "BCID"! Around 2 million books and 350,000 members.
BookFinder.com - find new, used, rare and out-of-print books.
BookFinder4U - compare prices at 55 stores.
BookOwl.com - low price book serach.
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.
Bookprice24, UK. Compare prices from 17 online bookstores.
Booksamillion.com, USA. Millionaire's Club gives 10% off every book.
BooksforAcademics.com, UK. Academic books.
BookSearch. US rare and out-of-print search specialist.
BookServe. International Internet bookstore (English, German and Dutch).
Booksinprint.com - find books, audios and videos from Bowker.
BookSite - 250,000 titles on-line.
The Booksmith, San Francisco, California,USA.
Books Now Inc. Virtual Bookstore.
BookTracker, UK. Compare prices and buy cheap books online.
BookWeb, sponsored by the American Booksellers Association.
Bookzone, UK - around 200,000 titles.
Boolah Book Store - compare Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Borders prices.
Boomerang Books, Australia. 1.2 million titles, Australian book specialist.
Borders, USA. Books, music, café.
Brazilian Books - books from Brazil in Portuguese.
Bublos - book price comparison site (US and UK).
Business & Computer Bookstore. (On-line since November 1994.)
CGI-BIN.COM. WebWheels Technical Bookstore.
Chambal.com - compare prices across major online booksellers.
CheapBooks.info - compare prices at 100+ bookstores.
The Cheapest Book - compare prices in 30 bookstores.
Cherry Valley Books. Children's and parenting books.
A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books, Bay Area, California, USA.
Cody's Books, USA.
Compbuy, UK. Cheap computer books.
Computer Book Express, Lehigh Valley, PA, USA.
The Computer Bookshop, UK.
Computer Manuals, UK.
The Co-op Bookshop, Australia. Over 45 bookshops nationwide, 1 million titles searchable on-line. Australia's first on-line academic and general bookstore.
DealPilot.com - compare prices on-line. (Was Acses.)
Dillons, UK.
FetchBook.info. Compare prices from around 72 stores and 40,000 sellers.
Foyles, Charing Cross Road, London, UK. (Over a million titles.)
Future Fantasy Bookstore, A Bookstore of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Mysteries. Closed 30 June 2001 after 22 years.
Grant & Cutler, London, UK. UK's largest foreign-language bookseller, over 80,000 books, etc., in stock.
Half Price Computer Books - new discount computer books.
Hanna's Bookstore, Dublin, Ireland.
Heffers, Cambridge. 1.9 million book catalogue, 300,000 books in stock.
Heritage Book Shop, Inc. Rare books and manuscripts.
IEEE Catalog & Store.
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.
Laissez-Faire Books. "The World's Largest Selection of Books on Liberty."
Large Print Books.
Lehmanns Fachbuchhandlung, Germany. (In German.)
The Literary Guild.
The McGraw-Hill Bookstore, New York, USA.
Midnight Special Bookstore, Santa Monica, California, USA. Political and social science.
Modern Book Company, London, UK.
Moe's Books, Berkeley, California, USA. Out-of-print and antiquarian book.
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.
Pickabook, UK.
Poolbeg Online Bookstore, Ireland. Irish art/culture/history, bestsellers, creative literature, romantic fiction, creative non-fiction and children's books.
Port Townsend Discount Books, Port Townsend, Washington, USA. 1000's of 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.
Proxis - 2.6 million English, Dutch and French books, Belgium.
Reader's Refuge, Australia.
Read Ireland, Dublin, Ireland. Irish Internet Bookstore - Irish interest books.
Red House Books, UK. Childrens Book Club.
Robert Foyle Books, UK.
Science Express - computer book specialists.
Shopping Finder Books, UK.
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, California, USA. Scholarly and academic titles.
Used Book Central. 300 dealers, 3.8 million books.
Waterstone's, UK.
WHSmith, UK. High street bookshop.
WordsWorth Books, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA, USA.