Virtual Library
Publishers
Selected bookstores
Please contact
Jonathan Bowen
if you know of relevant on-line information not included here
or would like to maintain information on a particular topic.
General queries cannot be normally be answered due to email overload;
please send such questions to a suitable
newsgroup such as
rec.arts.books instead.
indicates recommended links and
is used to mark recent additions.
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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123 Price Check.
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1BookStreet.com.
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A1 Books.
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AAABookSearch, USA.
A book search and price comparison service for USA and Canada.
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Abebooks (Advanced Book Exchange Inc.), USA.
40 million used, rare and out-of-print books.
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abiszet Bücherservice GmbH, Germany.
Nearly 1 million in two catalogues.
(In German.)
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AddALL book search and price comparison.
40+
bookstores.
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Alibris -
rare, used and hard-to-find books.
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All Top Books, UK.
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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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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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Another Bookshop, UK. Independent bookshop, over 300,000 books.
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Asian Rare Books, New York, USA.
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Bagchee Associates, India.
Indian book dealer.
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BargainBookStores.com.
50,000 books, save up to 90%!
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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).
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Bibliocity.
Rare and collectable books from antiquarian booksellers.
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Bibliofind
- rare and used books from Amazon.
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Biblion bookshop of bookshops.
Rare and antiquarian books.
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Blackwell's Academic Booksellers,
<""http://www.geocities.com/Athens/4824/uk.htm#oxford">
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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BookCrossing.com.
Free your books and track them using a "BCID"!
Around 2 million books and 350,000 members.
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BookFinder.com - find new, used, rare and out-of-print books.
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BookFinder4U - compare prices at 55 stores.
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BookOwl.com - low price book serach.
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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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Bookprice24, UK. Compare prices from 17 online bookstores.
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Booksamillion.com, USA.
Millionaire's Club gives 10% off every book.
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BooksforAcademics.com, UK.
Academic books.
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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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Booksinprint.com - find books, audios and videos from Bowker.
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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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BookTracker, UK.
Compare prices and buy cheap books online.
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BookWeb,
sponsored by the
American Booksellers Association.
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Bookzone, UK - around 200,000 titles.
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Boolah Book Store - compare
Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Borders prices.
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Boomerang Books, Australia.
1.2 million titles, Australian book specialist.
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Borders, USA.
Books, music, café.
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Brazilian Books - books from Brazil in Portuguese.
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Bublos - book price comparison site (US and UK).
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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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Chambal.com - compare prices across major online booksellers.
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CheapBooks.info - compare prices at 100+ bookstores.
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The
Cheapest Book - compare prices in 30 bookstores.
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Cherry Valley Books.
Children's and parenting books.
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A
Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books, Bay Area, California, USA.
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Cody's Books, USA.
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Compbuy, UK. Cheap computer books.
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Computer Book Express, Lehigh Valley, PA, USA.
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The
Computer Bookshop, UK.
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Computer Manuals, UK.
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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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DealPilot.com - compare prices on-line.
(Was
Acses.)
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Dillons, UK.
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FetchBook.info.
Compare prices from around 72 stores and 40,000 sellers.
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Foyles,
Charing Cross Road,
London, UK.
(Over a million titles.)
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Future Fantasy Bookstore,
A Bookstore of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Mysteries.
Closed 30 June 2001 after 22 years.
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Grant & Cutler, London, UK.
UK's largest foreign-language bookseller,
over 80,000 books, etc., in stock.
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Half Price Computer Books - new discount computer books.
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Hanna's Bookstore, Dublin, Ireland.
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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 Catalog & Store.
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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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Laissez-Faire Books.
"The World's Largest Selection of Books on Liberty."
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Large Print Books.
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Lehmanns Fachbuchhandlung, Germany.
(In German.)
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The
Literary Guild.
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The
McGraw-Hill Bookstore, New York, USA.
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Midnight Special Bookstore, Santa Monica, California, USA.
Political and social science.
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Modern Book Company, London, UK.
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Moe's Books, Berkeley, California, USA.
Out-of-print and antiquarian book.
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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.
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Pickabook, UK.
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Poolbeg Online Bookstore, Ireland.
Irish art/culture/history,
bestsellers, creative literature,
romantic fiction, creative non-fiction and children's books.
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Port Townsend Discount Books, Port Townsend, Washington, USA.
1000's of 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.
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Proxis - 2.6 million English, Dutch and French books, Belgium.
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Reader's Refuge, Australia.
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Read Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
Irish Internet Bookstore - Irish interest books.
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Red House Books, UK.
Childrens Book Club.
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Robert Foyle Books, UK.
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Science Express - computer book specialists.
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Shopping Finder Books, UK.
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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, California, USA.
Scholarly and academic titles.
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Used Book Central.
300 dealers, 3.8 million books.
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Waterstone's, UK.
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WHSmith, UK.
High street
bookshop.
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WordsWorth Books, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA, USA.
See also:
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Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts.
American and English literature, Western philosophy.
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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 comparison service.
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Books AtoZ publishing resources.
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BookWire, the book industry resource.
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The
On-line Books Page.
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Book Industry Communication, London, UK.
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Canadian Booksellers Association, Toronto, Canada.
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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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FreeTechBooks.com
free online computer science books and lecture notes.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for the
rec.arts.books
newsgroup.
See also
here and
other FAQs.
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Search for "books" discussion from
Google Groups.
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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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ISBN.nu - search for books and compare prices.
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Best Big On-line Bookstores.
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Bartleby.com free on-line books.
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Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA).
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Buying books online from
Soomucheasier.co.uk,
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Bookslut - book reviews, etc.
Audio books:
Maintained by
Jonathan Bowen.
Last updated
9 June 2005.