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Best Sellers

Bestseller Lists

Find out what's hot on the bestseller list. Includes fiction, non-fiction, children's, comics, and religious books plus audio books. From Publisher's Weekly.

Book Reviews

Finding Book Reviews at Swem Library

All of these book review sources are available in the library, either as links from the homepage or as volumes in the reference stacks on the 1st floor. Many of the sites concentrate on scholarly books, but popular titles are included, too.

Books (In Print)

AddALL Book Searching and Price Comparison

Search for any book you want, comparing the prices and services among numerous stores including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Borders.

Books (Out of Print)

Alibris

Database of nearly 1,000 used and antiquarian booksellers from around the country.

Bibliofind

Search through millions of books from 2,000 used and antiquarian bookstores around the world.

BookFinder.com

Meta search engine covering a number of new and used booksellers and listing services to provide access to over 15,000 booksellers on the Internet. Search results can be narrowed to "Used/Out of Print" books, as well as signed copies and first editions.

Booksellers

Amazon.com Books

Barnes and Noble

BookFinder.com

Meta search engine covering a number of new and used booksellers and listing services to provide access to over 15,000 booksellers on the Internet. The three-step search process retrieves both new and used books. Good for comparison shopping.

Bookstore Directory

American Booksellers Association's directory of bookstores.

Borders.com

William & Mary Bookstore

Publishing

AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers and Vendors

International directory of publishers and vendors used by libraries.

American Association of University Publishers

Links to home pages for nearly 100 university and academic publishers.

Publishers' Catalogs

Links to thousands of publishers around the world. Arranged by country.

Miscellaneous

Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: a dictionary of descriptive terminology

Short definition dictionary of hundreds of terms related to bookbinding, conservation, archiving, bibliography, printing, and librarianship. From Matt Roberts and Don Etherington at the Preservation Department, Stanford University Libraries.

Book Sales in America

Listing of book sales and bookstores run by libraries and other non-profit groups across the nation.

Guide to Finding Fiction in Swem and Nearby Libraries

A .pdf guide to locating works of fiction in Swem Library and other libraries in the Williamsburg area.

LC Classification System

Provides an excellent, in-depth guide to the entire LC Classification System.