Publishers

• AAUP: The Association of American University Presses
• AbeBooks  Search for rare, out-of-print, antiquarian, and used books. Advanced Book Exchange forwards messages to its member booksellers so that purchases can be arranged. Includes links to the web pages of booksellers worldwide. Although there is some overlap, listings are often different from those of Bibliofind (below).
• Alibris  Offers one-stop searching and  shopping from the inventories of booksellers worldwide.
• Amazon.com  Searchable by author, title, subject and keyword. Browsing by subject category of the most popular titles. Many books are reviewed, commented upon, or have accompanying articles.
• American Bookseller's Association BookWeb  A gateway to book-related sites and a directory of independent bookstores, searchable by location and specialty.
• Bibliofind  An Amazon-connected commercial site for identifying and purchasing used, rare, antiquarian, and out-of-print books. The database includes prices and descriptions of approximately 3 million books offered by 1000 booksellers worldwide. The database can be searched by author, title, keyword, publisher, type of binding, and other criteria.
• Book Index with Reviews  Use this database to search for citations to and prices for books in and out of print. Offers searching by author, title, keyword, publisher, ISBN, and other criteria.
• BookWire (Bowker)  A large collection of links to sites of interest to readers. Features links to book reviewing publications, publishers, libraries, booksellers, author web sites, and book industry news.
• Publishers' Catalogues Home Page  A comprehensive geographically-organized listing of publisher's web pages.
• PubList.com  Directory of more than 150,000 periodicals and 8000 newspapers worldwide.
• The Pulitzer Prizes Lists Pulitzer recipients for the past 80+ years. Provides an archive of works for the last several years, including photos, sound clips, and full text of all prize-winning articles. Includes biographies, information about jurors, and links to other Pulitzer resources.

Maine Books, Publishers, and Bookstores

• Maine Antiquarian Booksellers Association (MABA).  Includes a directory of 80 booksellers dealing in a wide range of used, rare and out-of-print books, maps, prints, autographs, bindings, photographs and ephemera, searchable by location or name.
• Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance  Includes a list of contacts and a calendar of literary events.

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