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Books: Bookstores, Catalogs, and Publishers Online
Online Bookstores
/ Sources for Used Books
/ Publishers
/ Comprehensive Bibliography
Online Bookstores
Amazon.com: the first major
Internet bookstore, Amazon provides access to over a million book titles, including
recently out of print titles, too; other features include online ordering, a growing list
of musical recordings, book reviews from published sources and readers' comments, and an
online agent that will e-mail you whenever Amazon receives a new book matching your
subject or author interests.
BarnesandNoble.com:
Amazon.com's major competition, part of a huge publishing conglomerate (note: Trinity
users may wish to check with our bookstore about discounts, since Barnes and Noble runs
our bookstore)
Books and Book Collecting:
a nice site with many links to bookstores, publishers, out-of-print specialists;
includes quick-search forms for many of the major bookstores on its own page
Sources for Used Books
ABE (Advanced Book Exchange):
provides
access to the holdings of many used book sellers
Bibliofind: "Seven
million old, used and rare books offered here for sale by three thousand booksellers
around the world make this the largest and possibly the most interesting bookselling site
on the Web."
BookFinder.com:
An
excellent service for searching through millions of new, used and rare books with a
minimum of intrusive graphics.
Publishers
Publishers (World Wide
Web Virtual Library)
PubList.com: directory
information on over 150,000 publications, specializing in periodicals; gives publisher,
address, frequency, phone, e-mail, and sometimes editor of most journals, magazines, and
many newspapers
Comprehensive Bibliography
Worldcat:
international database of books, periodicals,
music, and other materials from thousands of libraries worldwide; contained over 40
million item records as of Nov. 1998
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