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BOOKS support note for local bookstores and libraries. BOOKS USED find almost any book or author by going to these sites and using their search.http://www.addall.com Addall with this service you can check ABE Books, Antiqbook, Bibliofind, BookAvenue, Half.com, Alibris, Barnes and Noble, Book Close Outs, Gutenberg Holdings, Yourbooks and Powells http://www.abebooks.com Advanced Book Exchange (ABE) Offers a full-featured information service for buying and selling out-of-print, used, rare and antiquarian books. Over 2500 bookseller members, search them by specialty or location. Pick up their free book database program while you visit. Worth the effort to download if you are a dealer or have a number of books. http://www.alephbet.com AlephBet give them your list of most desirable children's books and they will fill it. http://www.alibris.com Alibris now includes Bibliocity, Interloc; a vendor network that's home to a variety of small and medium-sized booksellers. http://www.antiqbook.com Antiqbook for those that enjoy books with an international flair. Based in Holland with 30 dealers, over 300,000 titles, and 200,000 pieces of old graphic art. http://abaa.org Directory of ABAA Booksellers Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America. "This page leads to the full alphabetized and geographic directories of 450 members' firms. You may also want to search our list of dealers by Specialty Area or US State." List connects directly to Web site, ABAA catalogs, ABE listings or gives address. http://www.bibliofind.com Bibliofind 2000+ dealers selling 10 million books. Picked by Yahoo Internet Life as the #1 Favorite site of 1997.http://www.book-sales-in-america.com Book Sales in America and bookstores run by libraries and other non-profit groups across the nation. Some sales have a few hundred books - some have hundreds of thousands - and they're cheap! http://www.bookweb.org Book Web is a listing of 4500 book dealers (American Booksellers Association members) with 4000 in US, e-mail addresses given. Can select by subject, state, or name. Convention news, book industry-related news, media information, and resources in specialty areas available at this site.http://www.bookwire.com/index/antiquarian-booksellers.html Book Wire index "the first place to look for antiquarian booksellers". http://literaryleaps.com/leapaisle.cfm?aislenumber=2 BookZone Literary Leaps, Bookstores, Booksellers for a listing of links to new and used resources. http://www.bookfinder.com mx BookFinder Searches: Amazon Books, ABE, Interloc, Bibliocity, and Powell's Books, among others. Please note when doing a concentrated search it is usually better to go directly to each source to search, or use Addall since their search engine usually gives better results. http://www.powells.com Powell's is one of the largest independent bookstores on the American West Coast. http://www.trussel.com/f_books.htm Setmaker is a free service listing your wants or haves to complete a set or series. Also available to provide dust jackets. http://www.trussel.com/f_books.htm Books and Book Collecting: search site for Bookseller Lists and Associations for many links to dealer's and associations worldwide. BOOKS support note for local bookstores and libraries. We advise the development of a relationship with your local library and local bookstore, for that way both you and your source know your needs and expectations, and can come to share your knowledge and interests. This holds especially true when you deal with one particular librarian or with an independent book store. If you can not locate a book at one of your local sources then by all means use the independent online sources, and if they can not meet your needs go to the big guns. Remembering that the big chains are in a position to end the existence of the independents and that they have already had a major effect on the publishing trade. Currently there is only one big gun aimed at them: Amazon.Com. For more on the subject of the ever-shrinking number of independent bookstores, check out this PBS program. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec97/books_8-18.html Or read this article from the June 8, 1998 Business Journal. http://www.amcity.com:80/sanjose/stories/060898/smallb1.html The pending law suit against Barnes & Noble and Borders by ABA, Independent Bookstores is covered in detail at this site. http://www.bookweb.org/pressroom/ |
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