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Literary Links

• Bookstores: Meta | The Big Ones | Independents | Australian | British | Candadian | French | Israeli | Italian | Japanese | Used, Out-of-Print, and Rare
  • Meta (these search many stores, allowing the user to compare prices)
    • AddALL ("Book Searching and Price Comparison": meta-search that compares prices at internet bookstores)
    • DealTime.com (formerly DealPilot.com, "the Ultimate Comparison Shopping Search Engine"; before that, it was known as Acses, also a meta-search site. Agressively spams user with cookies and new windows, but does allow comparison shopping.)
    • FetchBook.Info
    • Click here to support Harold Underdown's "Purple Crayon" site (at no extra cost to you) by shopping at Amazon.com, Powells, or alibris.
  • The Big Ones (American)
    • Amazon.com's bookstore
    • BarnesandNoble.com
  • Independents (American)
    • Powell's City of Books (Portland, OR: a great independent store, carries both new and used books)
    • St. Mark's Bookshop (31 Third Avenue, New York, NY).
    • Wordsworth (Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA)
    • A Common Reader ("earth's smallest bookstore": seller, publisher, and importer of select titles)
  • Australian
    • Ozbooks.com
  • British
    • Amazon.co.uk (formerly Bookpages)
    • Blackwell's Online Bookshop
    • The Book Place
    • Dillons (is no more. Now part of Waterstone's)
    • Internet Bookshop ("Europe's Largest Online Bookshop")
    • Waterstone's (now working with Amazon.co.uk)
  • Candadian
    • Chapters.indigo.ca
  • French
    • Alapage.com (sells books, video, music, more....)
    • Amazon.fr
    • fnac.com (Note: you must accept cookies to access this site)
    • L'Ex-Libris (used books)
  • Israeli
    • dBook Hebrew Bookstore
    • ibooks.co.il
  • Italian
    • Internet Bookshop Italia
  • Japanese
    • Amazon.co.jp
  • Used, Out-of-Print, and Rare
    • Advanced Book Exchange Inc. (Victoria, BC: out-of-print, used, rare and antiquarian books). Caveat Emptor: Do not buy anything from Patricia Price, Bookseller (Ms. Price is one of the booksellers whose books can be bought through ABE -- the key difference being that her books do not actually arrive).
    • Alibris (formerly Interloc, still specializes in out-of-print & rare books)
    • Biliocity ("Rare & Collectible Books &c. from Leading International Antiquarian Booksellers") has been taken over by Alibris.
    • Bibliofind (has been taken over by Amazon.com)
    • Biblion (British site similar to Advanced Book Exchange)
    • BookFinder.com (meta-search engine "that scans bookseller databases to find new, used, rare, and out of print books")
    • Book Hunter Press (sells Used Book Lovers' Guides; one can also obtain information via subscription, on-line)
    • BookSeek (Steve Trussel's "index to the on-line catalog pages of numerous book sites which are not listed at ABE, BiblioFind, or BiblioCity, and are otherwise unsearchable. BookSeek returns the catalog page of the searched-for item." Note: page opens with irritating sound file.)
    • EdwardRHamlton.com (Falls Village, CT: carries new, remaindered books at a discount price; also carries a few used)
    • Tudor Rose Books (specializes in used and out-of-print scholarly books)
    • Powell's City of Books (carries both new and used books)
    • Strand (Broadway & 12th, New York, NY: "8 miles of books")
    • the Digital Librarian's list of Book Collecting links
    • Steve Trussel's Books and Book Collecting pages (Note: like Trussel's BookSeek, this page also opens with an irritating sound file.)
    • L'Ex-Libris (French used books: website is in French, too)
  • BizRate.com's Books & Magazines pages (Concerned about doing business on the web? BizRate.com rates businesses for you: their motto is "Making the Web a Safer, Better Place to Shop.")
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