Verification Tools: In Print and Price Listing Resources

BOOKS

International Agents- Searching and comparing costs of multiple online bookstores.

• AddALL Book Searching and Price Comparison, independent U.S. web site built by book buyers
• Bublos.com, book price comparison site based in Boston

Arabic Language

• Almaktabah.com, in Beirut, Lebanon
• Neelwafurat.com
• Sulaiman's Bookshop, in Beirut, Lebanon

Argentina

• Cuspide Libros S.A.
• Libreria Santa Fe
• Tematika

Australia

• Angus & Robertson
• Booktopia
• Co-op Bookshop

Austria

• Amazon.at

Belgium and the Netherlands

• Proxis, (Belgium) with books and CDs in English, French and Dutch
• BOL Nederland, Bertelsmann's BooksOnline
• BoekNet de Nederlandse Internetboekhandel, click "Zoeken" to search

Bolivia

• Libreria Boliviana

Brazil

• Livraria Cultura
• Saraiva
• Siciliano
• Submarino Brasil

Canada

• ChaptersGLOBE.com, for Canadian materials in English
• Banque de titres de langue francaise, maintained by the Quebec government; free, but registration required

China

• Chinese Books Cyberstore Ltd.

Denmark

• BogGuide

Finland

• Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

France

• Alapage
• Amazon.fr
• Chapitre.com
• Le Furet du Nord

Germany

• BOL Deutschland (bol.de), Bertelsmann's BooksOnline
• Bücher - buecher.de

India

• K. K. Agencies, an online bookstore in India
• Vedams Books International, also includes books published in Nepal and Bangladesh

Italy

• Casalini's i libri, note: This includes bibliographic and price, but not in-print, information
• Internet Bookshop Italia, an online Italian book service from Informazioni Editoriali and Internet Bookshop, listing most Italian books in print

Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia)

• ketabook.com

Mexico

• EsMas Compras
• Librería de Porrúa
• Librería el Sótano
• Librerías Gandhi

Norway

• BOL i Norge

Portugal/Portuguese

• Bertrand Livreiros

Russia

• Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga, includes books, newspapers, magazines and CD-ROMs from Russia and the CIS countries

Serbia

• Gerila.com - Internet knjizara Online Bookstore, with books, CDs, videos, CD-ROMs of Serbian and Yugoslav authors and publishers

Switzerland

• BOL Schweiz AG
• Buchhaus Lüthy & Stocker
• Büch Zentrum
• Lesen.ch

United Kingdom

• BookBrain.co.uk, searches multiple UK online bookstores
• Amazon.co.uk
• Countrybookstore.co.uk, with a database based on Whitakers
• John Smith and Son Bookshops, with an emphasis on Scottish books
• Student Bookworld, for British textbooks
• W.H. Smith, using a database of books listed in Whitakers Books in Print

United States

• U.S. book search agents
  • Best Book Buys
  • ISBN.nu : Online Bookstore Price Compare or Search, comparing the inventory of selected U.S. and Canadian Web bookstores
• Bookstores with extensive searchable in print lists for monographs
  • A1Books
  • Amazon.com
  • BarnesandNoble.com.
• Textbooks
  • See: AcqWeb's Directory of Textbook Publishers

Venezuela

• comala.com

SERIALS

• MediaFinder
• PubList.com, using sources such as Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory

MUSIC

• Compact Disc Connection, for all U.S. major labels, many independent labels and imports; well-developed search engine
• The Pepper Music Network, J.W. Pepper & Son, Inc., for printed music
• Proxis, web bookstore in Netherlands, with CDs in English, French and Dutch
• See also: Music Selection Resources on the WWW, by Anna Seaberg

VIDEOS and DVD

• Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
• See also: Video Distributor Database, by Gary Handman, Media Resources Center, Library, University of California, Berkeley