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aNobii

aNobii is a social networking site targeted to worldwide booklovers. The idea behind aNobii is simple: create an online platform for avid-readers to share reviews, recommendations, and most important of all, find other similar-taste booklovers.

AbeBooks

AbeBooks (formerly the Advanced Book Exchange) is an online marketplace for books. Most books listed are used books, many are rare or out-of-print, and a growing number are new books. The company is based in Victoria, Canada, with offices in Düsseldorf, Germany, and the US. It was incorporated in 1995 and launched its websites in 1996. At present, they list more than 100 million books on sale from 13,200 booksellers in 57 countries. AbeBooks offers six regional websites: for North America, France, Germany, Italy, the UK and Spain (Iberlibro.com).

AddALL

AddALL is a company based in Arcadia, California. Its website that offers an online book search feature. The search combs records from more than 40 major sellers in a meta-search and combines the results so that they can be sorted by the user (by lowest price, title, or other ordering). By combining many sources (and also giving the option of searching for online coupons from the booksellers) AddALL attempts to offer users of its search information on finding the lowest price on a book, or help in finding hard-to-find or out-of-print.

Alibris

Alibris is an online store that sells new books, used books, out-of-print books, rare books, and other media through an online network of independent booksellers.

Booksellers list their inventories on Alibris which in turn offers the books on its retail website, a separate library services site, and business to business partners such as Barnes and Noble, Borders Books, Books-A-Million, and Chapters Indigo. It offers more than 70 million books from a network of over 10,000 booksellers in 65 countries.

Amazon.com

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is an American electronic commerce (e-commerce) company in Seattle, Washington. Amazon was one of the first major companies to sell goods by Internet, and was an iconic "stock in which to invest" of the late 1990s dot-com bubble. After the collapse, the public became skeptical about Amazon's business model, although it has since remained profitable.

Americana exchange

The Americana Exchange (or “AE”) is an online resource for the buying, selling and collecting of rare and antiquarian books. It was founded in 2002 in San Francisco by rare book collector Bruce McKinney with the aim of offering hard to find information about book collecting to the public. From a start of providing a subscription database of bibliographic records, the company now offers many related services, mostly at no charge. The company at first specialized in the Americana book field, but quickly expanded to all types of antiquarian and rare books.

Baen Free Library

The Baen Free Library is a digital library of the science fiction and fantasy publishing house Baen Books where (as of February 2007) 94 full books are available for free download in a number of formats, without copy protection. It was founded in autumn 1999 by science fiction writer Eric Flint and publisher Jim Baen to determine whether the availability of books free of charge on the Internet encourages or discourages the sale of their paper books.

Biblio.com

Biblio.com is an online marketplace for booksellers specializing in rare and out-of-print titles. Several thousand individual booksellers subscribe to their listing service. Booksellers will upload their book lists along with prices and descriptions of items they own. Searches on the site bring up results from any seller's books. On completed sales, member booksellers pay a percentage of the sale price to the firm. Certain sellers are also charged a monthly fee. The site can collect charge card payment via the web. Biblio.com is probably the 3rd largest books-only website. Many sellers who list stock on Biblio also have their material simultaneously on competitor's sites such as abebooks.com or alibris.com.

BiblioQuest

BiblioQuest International is a specialist search service for books, primarily used books and rare or out-of-print titles. The company is based in Bowral, New South Wales Australia and is registered with the Australian Securities and Investment Commission ACN 109 499 265 ABN 88 109 499 265. It owns Australian trademark 723201.

BiblioPage.com

BiblioPage.com is an Amazon.com affiliate site with a database of books gathered from libraries across the world using the NISO z39.50 protocol for accessing bibliographic databases. BiblioPage.com uses the YAZ toolkit from IndexData to access and manipulate bibliographic information.

The main idea behind BiblioPage.com is that libraries choose the best selection of books. Therefore by suggesting titles that libraries have purchased the consumer is choosing only among the most relevant titles.

Bibliophile Mailing List

The Bibliophile Mailing List is an electronic mailing list for sellers and collectors of rare, out-of-print and scarce books. Booksellers, librarians, students, scholars, and book lovers, share news and discussions on all manner of topics of interest to bibliophiles, as well as posting books wanted and books for sale listings.

BookCrossing

BookCrossing (also: BC, BCing or BXing) is defined as "the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise". The term is derived from bookcrossing.com, a free online book club which began and encouraged the practice and aims to "make the whole world a library".

BookFinder.com

BookFinder.com is a vertical search website that helps readers buy books online. The site's meta-search engine scans the inventories of over 100,000 booksellers located around the world. Users can find the lowest price for a book of their choice from over 125 million volumes available for sale, and purchase titles directly from the bookseller, without a markup. The search engine is focused primarily on English, French, German, Italian, and Dutch language titles.

Booklist

Booklist is a publication of the American Library Association that provides critical reviews of books and audiovisual materials for all ages. It is geared toward libraries and booksellers and is available in print (ISSN 0006-7386) or online. It is published twice monthly September through June and monthly in July and August.

Books iRead

Books iRead is an online community of book enthusiasts. iRead started out as a social cataloging application on Facebook in June 2007 and has since expanded to over 1.2 million active members across Facebook, MySpace, Orkut, Hi5, and Bebo.

Books4cars

Books4cars is a web-based company located in Seattle, WA that carries books that relate to cars, trucks, and motorcycles, such as service manuals, owners manuals and historical books.In the inventory. there are rare books, and books regarding rare cars.

Most of their inventory is available through the website, but the company also offers to search for rare books, if contacted by phone.

Booksfree

Booksfree is an online book rental company, the first to offer flat rate rental-by-mail to customers in the United States. Established in 2000 and headquarted in Vienna, Virginia, it boasts an inventory of over 100,000 titles and more than 13,000 subscribers. On June 8, 2007 the company announced that it had delivered its millionth book.

CheapBooks.com

CheapBooks.com is a book price comparison web site founded in 1997 by David Tiberio. CheapBooks compares prices on new and used books, as well as textbook rentals and buybacks. CheapBooks also offers a book search service that groups books by title and author. Book news and reviews are aggregated daily from major news sources.

EServer

The EServer is an open access electronic publishing cooperative, founded in 1990, which publishes writings in the arts and humanities free of charge to Internet readers. It is rated by Alexa as the most popular arts and humanities website in the world. As of 2005, the EServer published more than 32,000 works. In December 2006 it hosted approximately 66,000 readers per day (two million per month).

Martha L. Brogan and Daphnée Rentfrow wrote in 2005 that it has "more than 200 active members, including editors of an eclectic mix of 45 discrete 'collections' (Web sites), which 'publish' more than 32,000 works." Duke University Library rates the EServer among the "best overall directories for literary information on the Web."

Fishpond

Fishpond Ltd. is a New Zealand e-commerce company based in Auckland, New Zealand. It was one of the first major companies to sell books over the Internet in New Zealand.

Founded by Daniel Robertson in 2004 Fishpond.co.nz is a full-scale online bookstore with over 1.2 million Books. It also sells DVDs and music CDs.

Fishpond.com.au has established a separate website in Australia.

Goodreads

Goodreads is a privately run "social cataloging" website started in December 2006 by Otis Chandler, a software engineer and entrepreneur. The website permits individuals to sign up and register books to create their library catalogs and reading lists. As of December 2007 the site has over 650,000 members and over 10,000,000 books added.

Lib.ru

Lib.ru, also known as Maksim Moshkow's Library (Russian: Библиоте́ка Макси́ма Мошко́ва, started to operate in November 1994) is the largest and the oldest electronic library in the Russian Internet segment.

Founded and supported by Maksim Moshkow, it receives contributions mainly from users who send texts they scanned and processed (OCR, proofreading). This method of acquisition provides the library a broad and efficient augmentability, though sometimes it adversely affects the quality (errors, omissions).

LibraryThing

LibraryThing is a prominent social cataloging web application for storing and sharing personal library catalogs and book lists.

LibraryThing was developed by Tim Spalding and went live on August 29, 2005. By its one-year anniversary in August 2006, LibraryThing had attracted more than 73,000 registered users who had cataloged 5.1 million individual books, representing nearly 1.2 million unique works; in May 2008 they reached over 400,000 users and 27 million books.[1] The LibraryThing website displays Google AdSense advertising on work and author pages for users that are not logged in, and receives referral fees from online bookstores that supply book cover images. Individual users can sign up for free and register up to 200 books. Beyond that limit and/or for commercial or group use, a subscription fee or one-time lifetime fee is charged. Online bookseller AbeBooks bought a 40% share in LibraryThing in May 2006 for an undisclosed sum.

LibriVox

LibriVox is a digital library of free public domain audiobooks, read by volunteers. The project started in August 2005, and as of 2008-06-07 had a catalog of roughly 1,532 full-length, unabridged books and shorter works. LibriVox recordings are mostly in English, followed by German, and then French, however recordings are available in over twenty-one languages.

OttoBib.com

OttoBib.com is a website with a free tool to generate an alphabetized bibliography of books from a list of International Standard Book Numbers (ISBN) with output in MLA, APA, or Chicago/Turabian format. Each query also generates a permalink which can be used to recall the bibliography without reentering the ISBN data. The site is a metasearch engine, integrating data from several sources, including the U.S. Library of Congress API, the Amazon.com database of books, and ISBNdb.com. OttoBib accepts both ISBN-10 and ISBN-13.

Play.com

Play.com is a Jersey-based online retailer and of DVDs, CDs, Books, Gadgets, DRM-free mp3 downloads, and other electronic products. Founded in 1998, Play.com was one of the first online retailers targeting the UK. It is the second biggest online retailer in the UK market, according to traffic monitor Hitwise, and it is in the top 50 globally. Play.com was ranked second on the November 2006 UK "Hot Shops List" compiled by IMRG and Hitwise. As of January 2008, Play.com has 7,000,000 registered customers, a catalogue of 5,000,000 products, and it employs some 500 staff.

Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg, abbreviated as PG, is a volunteer effort to digitize, archive and distribute cultural works. Founded in 1971 by Michael S. Hart, it is the oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of public domain books. The project tries to make these as free as possible, in long-lasting, open formats that can be used on almost any computer. As of December 2007, Project Gutenberg claimed over 24,000 items in its collection. Project Gutenberg is affiliated with many projects that are independent organizations which share the same ideals, and have been given permission to use the Project Gutenberg trademark.

Project Rastko

Project Rastko - Internet Library of Serb Culture (Serbian: Пројекат Растко - Електронска библиотека српске културе, Projekat Rastko - Elektronska biblioteka srpske kulture) is a non-profit and non-governmental publishing, cultural and educational project dedicated to Serb and Serb-related arts and humanities. It is named after Rastko Nemanjić.

Proxis

Proxis is an online store, founded in the year 1997. The head office is located in Zaventem, Belgium, where 15 to 40 people are operative. Proxis sells English, Dutch and French books, CDs, DVDs, games, and supplies. Proxis is the Belgian market leader in the field of online shops and ships her products worldwide.

Rare Book Room

Rare Book Room is an educational website for the repository of digitally scanned rare books made freely available to the public.

The repository includes books by Galileo, Newton, Copernicus, Kepler, Einstein, and Darwin. It includes most of the Shakespeare Quartos from the British Library, the Bodleian Library, the University of Edinburgh Library, and the National Library of Scotland, as well as the First Folio from the Folger Library. It includes Library of Congress copies of Poor Richard's Almanack by Benjamin Franklin, and other rare editions: a Gutenberg Bible of 1455, Thomas Harvey's book on the circulation of blood, Galileo ’s Sidereus Nuncius, the first printing of the United States Bill of Rights, and the Magna Carta.

Shelfari

Shelfari is a social cataloging website where members can catalog, tag, review, and discuss books.. Shelfari is the first product from Taste Makers, Inc., a company created by Josh Hug, Kevin Beukelman, and Mark Williamson. Shelfari was launched on October 11, 2006. Individuals are able to sign up for free and register an unlimited number of books.

TheHut.com

TheHut.com is an online retailer of CDs, DVDs, Memory, Video Games and Books. Founded in 2004, TheHut.com has grown rapidly and in 2007 topped the Tech Track 100 list of technology companies in North West England, and ranked 18th in Britain.

TomFolio.com

TomFolio.com is the website of a cooperative book trading database owned by book stores through the organization A Book CoOp.

The organization was founded in 1999 in Wisconsin, and has members throughout the world.

ValoreBooks.com

ValoreBooks is an online marketplace that sells new and used college textbooks through a network of online booksellers. ValoreBooks was formed by a small group of college students, including CEO Robert Brannigan and has grown to over 5,000 booksellers throughout the United States in less than 5 years.

Wired for Books

Wired for Books is an online educational project of the WOUB Center for Public Media at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. The website features author interviews, dramatic audio productions of classic literature, readings of poetry, short stories, lectures, essays, and children's literature.