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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
