Great Reads: Booksellers
Bonnie Greschaw & Nancy Hasek,
FCL Staff Selectors
Sellers of New Books
Largest online bookstore, offering millions of books, CDs, videos, DVDs, and computer games. Amazon.com has also become an excellent source for book reviews, with reviews submitted from major sources, as well as offering reader reviews.
Barnes and Noble has become a major presence in the Internet neighborhood. New specials are offered frequently, such as 40 percent discounts for the top bestsellers and free shipping for two or more items purchased.
Best Book Buys compares prices at dozens of independent and chain online bookstores, letting you know whether a book is in stock or back-ordered, how soon it will be shipped, and the approximate shipping cost. A great site for new, used, or out-of-print books, textbooks, videos and music.
Sellers of Rare & Used Books
Advanced Book Exchange (ABE)
Abebooks.com rings buyers and sellers of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books together. Searchable by author, title, publisher or keywords and includes a directory of several hundred used book dealers.
Bibliofind has partnered with Amazon.com to provide millions of rare, used, and out-of-print books through the world's No.1 online bookstore.
Fast and efficient, BookFinder combines the holdings of over 40,000 different booksellers on one search engine. It can concurrently search such sites as Advanced Book Exchange, Alibris, Amazon, Antiqbook, Barnes & Noble, and Powell's Books.
This unique site lists book sales by city and state, as well as by date. Most entries are public libraries, though bookstores and other organizations are also listed. Entries include types of items available and prices and there is also a form for adding your book sale to the site.