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amazon.com
Description: Find publication details on over 2.5 million books in and out of print, videos and CDs. Amazon also includes links to books from the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, and France.
Barnes and Noble
Description: Books, textbooks, out of print books, music, and videos. Same-day delivery if you live in Manhattan and a good stock of academic titles.
Book publishers' catalogs from around the world
Description: Links to catalogs, libraries, and online bookshops
Choice Reviews
Description: full-text book reviews from CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries the primary source for librarians and faculty who select academic library books. This site contains the entire database of CHOICE reviews published since September 1988.
Google Books
Description: Search sample pages or the full book view if the book is out of copyright.
International Children's Digital Library
Description: This site will eventually contain over 10,000 children's books drawn from 100 cultures. Each book is presented in full-text with full color image. It requires Java and special software (6.2Mb) that can be downloaded from the site, along with a high-speed connection. The project was developed by the Internet Archive and the University of Maryland and sponsored by federal Institute of Museum and Library Services in partnership with other academic and government agencies.
Internet Bookshop
Description: Books from the United Kingdom, from WHSmith Online.
New York Review of Books
Description: An electronic version of the print edition. A fee is required to access some reviews.
Online Books Page
Description: Links to over 20,000 online full-text books. You can search by author or title, display a subject list by Library of Congress call number, or find links to banned books, books on special topics, or books in other languages. Compiled by John Mark Ockerbloom, digital library planner and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania Library.
Online Library Catalogs in New York City Area
Description: Maintained by Stacy Pober, Manhattan College Library.
Out of Print Books: Abebooks.com
Description: provides a good interface and direct links to dealers
Out of Print Books: Alibris
Description: this service lets you search for out-of-print books but does not provide links to dealer's catalogs
Out of Print Books: Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA),
Description: a professional organization for established booksellers, has a new site that will let you find book or find a member bookseller by name, speciality, or location.
Out of Print Books: Bookfinder
Description: Bookfinder is an out-of- print search engine that does a combined search of several online bookseller's sites, including Amazon, ABE, and others.
Out of Print Books: International League of Antiquarian Book Dealers
Description: The ILAB-LILA (Ligue Internationale de la Librairie Ancienne)has a seachable database of books and of bookdealers around the world.
Out of Print Books: StrandOnline
Description: The Strand Book Store, on Broadway at 12th St. in Manhattan, boasts that it has 18 miles of books, mostly used. Its inventory is now online at this site
Oxford Text Archive
Description: over 2500 electronic texts for scholarly use. Some are available for immediate download, others require submission of a form requesting their use for scholarship.
Projet Gutenberg
Description: Collection of online books.
SearcheBooks
Description: Keyword searching across thousands of online books.
Wired for Books
Description: "Developed by the Ohio University Telecommunications Center, with the kind assistance of the Ohio Humanities Council, this site brings together a number of rather fine audio recordings of authors reading their own works, video recordings of a number of plays, and an extensive archive of author interviews conducted by Don Swaim from his national syndicated program, Book Beat, which was produced in the 1970s and 1980s. The site contains a number of great renditions of various works especially for children, including some fine readings of the stories of Beatrix Potter and a great performance of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as directed and narrated by Karen Chan. " -- Scout Report
Wright American Fiction (1851-1875)
Description: The Indiana University Digital Library Program plans to digitize every American novel published between 1851 and 1875. So far over 1,700 are available in full image and in text.

 

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