Searchable Booksites
Numerous book pages now include searchable forms. Here I've included author / title "short forms" for new and used books stores and multi-dealer services.
Click on their logo to go to their homepage.
Click on the name to go to their full forms.
More Search Forms
Out-of-Print Book Search Services
Amazon Books, "Earth's Biggest Bookstore. 1.5 million books in print and 1 million out-of-print books."
Barnes & Noble "World's Largest Bookseller Online. Over 400,000 in-stock titles. Book Search over 1 million titles."
was: Computer Literacy
fatbrain.com "an online bookstore solely focused on technical and computing-related titles. We stock nearly 30,000 titles in our warehouse and list over 300,000." (Information on many out-of-print titles shown.)
DealTime "checks out prices, availability, plain shipping time and shipping costs of your book at over 20 online stores - simultaneously! Find the best offer within a few seconds!"
Used, Rare, Out-of-Print books
ABE: Advanced Book Exchange, "The INTERNET's most popular
service for buying and selling out-of-print, used, rare and antiquarian books."
ABE reports in February, 1999: "Currently, we have over ten million books in our database. If we don't have the book you are looking for, you can create an account for yourself (free) and leave up to 500 wants on the system. The
system will then match your wants with the new books being entered into the system and notify you by email if the book you are looking for is found. In addition, our bookseller network has grown to over 4400 members from 30
countries around the world."
Anirvan Chatterjee's
BookFinder.com. Multiple search engine searches ABE, Alibris, Amazon, Antiqbook, Powell's, BiblioFind, Biblion, BookAvenue.com, Half.com, JustBooks, TomFolio.com, YourBooks.com, more... and returns the results as a single list!
"Bookavenue.com, a cyber-avenue where booksellers and readers meet to buy and sell the best book, at the best price. Why pay extra, buy direct! No superstore mark-up, just folks buying and selling on bookavenue."
TomFolio.Com, a website for buying and selling used, rare and collectible books, ephemera, and periodicals, jointly owned by independent member booksellers.
JustBooks UK, the largest Internet marketplace in Europe for second-hand and antiquarian books. Here you will find more than 1,100,000 titles offered by over 250 book dealers around the country and beyond, from paperbacks to rare, out of print or first editions.
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Looking for hard-to-find books? Why waste your time in visiting many sites for a book? Used and Out of Print books are searched here. (Searches: ABE, Alibris, AntiqBook, Biblion, Bibliofind, Half.Com, JustBooks, Powell's)
We bring together book buyers and booksellers dealers, publishers and private presses and provide interesting links with other book-related sites. With bibliophile.net, there are no price markups you buy directly from the bookseller.
"Welcome to the world of out-of-print, used, and rare books. Find and BUY the BOOKS you've been looking for right here. Alibris GUARANTEES every book we ship."
"21 North Main, "the virtual marketplace for used books; the first choice for anyone seeking to buy used, out-of-print, antiquarian or rare books."
By Request...
Although these dealers may have listings on the multi-lists, there have been requests to have the direct forms back up on line...
Powell's Books - "over a million new and used books in stock" (can use the wildcard "*")
Gutenberg Holdings, Internet sellers of used, out-of-print and rare books; over 100,000 books in stock, in many subjects and languages.
Pandora's Books, for (mostly paperback) mysteries, sci-fi and the like, (70,000 titles). Has a searchable database by title, author, etc.