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Bookstores, Catalogs,
and Publishers
Online
Bookstores and In-Print Books Catalogs
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:
(Trinity campus users only) -- an 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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