Books
Awards
Amazon Award Winners List
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/542942/103-1081918-214706
Links to lists of most major literary awards sites, including Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, National Book Awards, etc.
Literary Awards (Yahoo)
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Awards/
Exhaustive annotated list of links to organizations that sponsor both well and lesser known literary awards.
Reviews
New York Review of Books (1996-present)
http://www.nybooks.com/
Online
edition of biweekly magazine published in New York which contains
learned and in-depth essays concerning historical, literary and current
political affairs and issues.
New York Times Book Review (1980-present) Free registration required
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/index.html
Online
version of supplement to Sunday edition of the New York TImes. Contains
reviews of new releases, author interviews, and coverage of the book
world as well as bestseller lists for fiction, nonfiction, and
paperbacks.
Reviews (Yahoo)
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Reviews/
Exhaustive annotated list of links to sites which review and recommended books. Covers a large variety of subject areas.
Book Stores
Amazon
http://www.amazon.com
Includes many special features such as extensive reviews by
reader-customers and ratings of books, films and music. Includes
suggested booklists including ones compiled by well-known authors. You
may view the table of contents and browse sample pages of a title.
Barnes & Noble
http://www.barnesandnoble.com
As well as an online store, includes a “University” which includes free
courses with leading experts and book discussions on their latest book
led by famous author
Books-A-Million
http://www.booksamillion.com
Discounted prices and large inventory of bargain books
Powell's Books
http://www.powells.com
Online store for a large popular bookstore chain in Oregon. Known for its excellent author interviews and blogs.
Out of Print Books
AddALL
http://www.addall.com
Free service that searches the databases of all the major online
bookstores for the best price; includes out-of-print and rare books.
Advanced Book Exchange
http://www.abebooks.com
Online community of over 13,500 independent booksellers selling 80 million books from around the globe.
Alibris
http://www.alibris.com
Represents
thousands of independent sellers around the world offering 60 million
used, new and out-of-print books to consumers, libraries and retailers.
Bibliofind
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/books/misc/bibliofind.html/103-1081918-2147067
Combines with Amazon.com to provide millions of rare, used, and out-of-print books.
Out of Print Dealers
http://www.lib.auburn.edu/acq/docs/opdealer.html
From Auburn University, list of links to dealers specializing in out-of- print books.
Rare and Antiquarian Book Vendors
http://acqweb.org/pubr/rare.html
Extensive list of rare and antiquarian book vendores.
Electronic Books
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
Collection of public domain documents form American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.
Great Books Online
http://www.bartleby.com
"Combines
the best of both contemporary and classic reference works into the most
comprehensive public reference library ever published on the web."
Online Books Page
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books
Includes more than 25,000 English works in various formats.
Internet Public Library Reading Room
http://www.ipl.org/div/books/
Portal of web resources for online books, newspapers and magazines.
Project Gutenberg
http://promo.net/pg/
Oldest producer of free ebooks on the Internet, over 18,000 free books produced online by hundreds of volunteers.
University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative
http://www.hti.umich.edu/index-all.html
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
University of Virginia Electronic Texts Center
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
Includes approximately 70,000 on- and off-line humanities texts in many languages (including online Chinese and Japanese
literature) and hundreds of thousands of related images (book
illustrations, covers, manuscripts, newspaper pages, page images of
Special Collections books, museum objects, etc.)
Publishers
Directory of Publishers and Vendors
http://acqweb.org/pubr.html
An international directory of publishers and vendors used by libraries. It links to their Web sites and email addresses.