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Book Publishers

Books AtoZ - Book publishing industry/bookstore resources plus news and events
BookWire - Book publishers index
Books.com Publisher's Place - Book publishers Index
Faxon - Academic publishers on the Internet  A-M  N-Z
Indexers lists of publishers - links to the major publisher lists on the web
Northern Lights - Book publishers Catalogs List
Para Publishing - Books, reports, and workshops for publishing and promotion
SPANnet - Small Book Publishers on the net
WebWarehouse - Hand picked links for today's cyberyuppie
Yellow Pages - Suppliers to book publishers, not necessarily publishers
Oxbridge MediaFinder - searchable list of 95,000 publications and catalogs
UNCAT - searchable database of uncataloged and hard-to-find titles
More International Databases (adapted from the Japanese compilation ) 

Book Gossip

Biblio Magazine - a resource/entertainment publication for the book lover and collector
Book Kahoona - industry book publicity information from Ingram
The Bookseller - articles, bestsellers, previews, marketing, industry events and links
The Book Report - where readers meet readers and readers meet writers
Booktalk - all the buzz about books
BookWeb - book news from the American Booksellers Association
Canadian tidbits - a accumulation of weekly book news tidbits
Database - All About Books--Online - a nicely done insider article of note
Internet Book Resource Guide - a potpourri of interesting items and lists
Library Journal Digital - the Bible of the library trade
Publishers Weekly - a key trade source of news bytes, highlights and articles
Publishing Poynters - Book Marketing Newsletter from Dan Poynter
Rachel's Compendium - list of online book discussions, book clubs, newgroups et. al.
Whole Wired World - a soothing cup for the harried reader, an interesting mix

Book Reviews

BookWire - bookinfo database of reviews, bestseller lists and much more
Bookspot - book reviews, reading lists, and lots of other resources
Book List - lots of links to review sources
Book Page - yet another site of reviews both on-line and by subscription
Chapter One - links to prominent review sites and first chapter of 360 books!
Homespun's Book Recommendations of Real Folks - shared lists from readers
Internet Book Information Center - personal, selective, opinionated guide to books and to book-related resources on the Internet from sunsite.
Reader's Robot - recommendations based on a search of reader's with like tastes.

Books Reference - nice selection of annotated links to reading lists and resources

Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review - about a dozen full reviews each week
New York Times Book Reviews - more than 50,000 reviews since 1980, completely searchable by author and title. Available by paid subscription.
Overbooked - a gigantic site with a large list of book review sites
The Internet Book Review Resource List - an in-depth look with ratings
Scholar's Booklink - online Reviews, Excerpts, & Announcements
Under the Covers - reviews for over 3,000 books worth reading
Independent Reader - searchable advice on the best new books

Periodicals & Databases

Lists of Magazines: - Ventana  Ability's  Wayne EuroWEB
Lists of Newspapers: - Kidon MADD  EuroWEB

MediaFinder - search 95,000 periodical titles, Oxbridge Communications
Ezines search by title - find a periodical if you know the title
The Book of Zines - interviews with zine authors and a Big List o' Zines
ABYZ News Links - Newspapers, news media and news sources.
AILEENA World-wide Media Index
Newspapers - USA and Worldwide (refdesk.com)
U.S. Newspaper Archives on the Web
International News Archives on the Web
Newspaper Links: A Gateway to Your Local Newspaper
Online Newspapers from Around the World
MEL: Indexes to Select Newspapers and Periodicals
News and Newspapers - includes short political list (30k)
American Journalism Review Newspapers
Newspapers of the world on the Internet - by geography
MH Online Papers via fee nets (Alphabetical)
Newspaper Archives on the Web - with fees and date range listed
MediaJump - list of periodicals and Online Media Periodicals
NewsDirectory - newspapers, magazines searchable by title, area code, subject
NewsTrawler - international newspapers, magazines and journals
Newsletter Access - Business, Investments, Health, Advertising, Marketing
searchable
Ultimate Collection of News Links - by genre within geography
Crayon News Links - nicely categorized
Foreign Language News and Newspapers - organized at MIT Libraries
Genamics Journal Seek - the largest database of freely available journal information available on the internet. The database presently contains more than 8500 titles.
New Jour: Electronic Journals & NewsLetters - a completely Internet list for  new journals and newsletters available on the Internet
jake - Journal Articles in Online Datebases
Free Scientific and Academic Databases and Searchable Data Sets - over 340

Supplementary Online Databases - nicely annotated from Chemeketa Library

Free Academic Databases - an alphabetic list lightly annotated
Chemical Resources - large list from Prof. Carlos Lopez
French Academic emphasis - databases and portals (some English)
Zentralbibliothek - kostenfreien  Datenbanken und Linksammlungen (some English)
Chinese Academic free databases - a short list
Free Reference Sources - focuses on DB subscriptions at public libraries in California

Library Reference - from Internet Public Library

RefDesk.com
 

Book Gossip Book Reviews Bestseller Lists Libraries

Bestseller Lists

A-List - searchable, annotated top fifty titles by demand in a dozen areas from Ingram
Academia - Baker & Taylor's monthly list of academic and univeristy press bestsellers
Amazon.com - a weekly list of the top ten fiction and nonfiction titles
Books.com - the top fifteen for hardback fiction/non-fiction, mass market, trade
Buy.com - the top 25 listings are shown
Library Journal - a subject list based on data from Baker & Taylor, 20 each month
New York Times - the top listing for paperback and hardback fiction/non-fiction
PWinteractive - a searchable database of bestsellers from Publisher's Weekly
USA Today - a list of the top 150 best-selling books in the country
Wall Street Journal - fiction, non-fiction and business titles courtesy of Borders
Audio Book World - fiction, non-fiction, business and children's books on tape
The Sunday Times - top ten paperback and hardback fiction/non-fiction in UK
Australian Bestsellers - the favorites from down under
KNO / K&V - Der Spiegel bestseller list of German books  fiction  non-fiction
BookBrowser - not really bestsellers, a massive set of fiction reading lists

Libraries

Best OPAC KVK (50 million)  Multi-OPAC (40 million) WorldCAT (36 million)
COPAC - unified access to some of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland
Catalogue Collectif de France - access to catalogs of over 3,900 French libraries and "centres de documentation"; searchable by instution name and document author, title, publisher and date.
Yahoo public libraries   Yahoo university libraries   Melvyl for the UC system
Library of Congress Catalog  British Library Catalog
Library of Congress Z39.50 catalog gateway - hundreds of university libraries
Library of Congress Catalog data from DRA   LC Subject Headings
New York Public Library Catalog   Brooklyn Public Library Catalog
CARLweb - Public Library catalogs for Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago & Denver
Widest Canadian coverage - University of Toronto  Simon Fraser University
LIBCAT - offers slow access to almost 3000 libraries alphabetically and much more
webCAT - offers faster access to libraries by geography and type of library
Libweb  - currently lists over 1700 pages from libraries in over 70 countries
OCLC Participating Institutions - database detailing lending policies, location
On-Line Books Page - Over 5000 listings of books available on-line
Bowker - Free books out-of-print access
Library oriented potpouri of links - The Librarian Resources   Digital Librarian
Sites for Librarians - Librarian's Guide to the best information on the net
Leiden Centre for the Book - Huge list of book related links in many categories
International Library Databases (from Japanese compilation by Tamio Ito )
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