Biblio
Biblio
was founded in 2003 and is independently owned. This
company is dedicated giving customers and booksellers
alike excellent service, and to charitable works.
Over 5,600 booksellers sell on Biblio, so there’s a
very large selection of books – over 100 million! It’s
the best of both worlds – indie, and big. (There’s also
a UK site, Biblo.co.uk.)
Check it out here.
Bibliophile Bookbase
Bibliophile
is based in Switzerland with a few hundred booksellers
located around the globe, but mostly in the UK, US,
Ireland, South Africa and Australia. The website has
been online since 1999 and is available in English,
French, German and Italian.
Books from the Crypt
This super place, Books
from the Crypt, has a substantial supply of
Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror books and pulps as
well as Mystery, Detective and Adventure pulp magazines,
books, digests, comics, and ephemera in our online
catalog.
Book Lovers
Book
Lovers is based in the UK and operated by a
bookseller, who personally approves new book dealers to
ensure quality. Currently includes over 50 (mostly UK)
booksellers offering about 350,000 collectible books.
Books at PBFA
Books
at PBFA lists books offered by members of The
Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association. Booksellers
adhere to a code of conduct and are mostly UK-based,
with a handful from other countries.
BuchFreund
BuchFreund
is a German book marketplace, with listings from many
German antiquarian booksellers. Their site is available
in either the German or English language.
Buy or Rent Cheap Textbooks
CheapestTextbooks.com...
Our only purpose is to help you find the cheapest place
to buy and rent your textbooks. We are a price
comparison search engine dedicated to finding you the
cheapest place to get your textbooks.
ILAB
The
International League of Antiquarian Booksellers‘s
slogan is “the world’s best books, the world’s best
booksellers.” Their site lists books sold by almost
1,800 ILAB member booksellers, who must meet a high
standard to join.
IOBA
the
Independent Online Booksellers Association is a
trade organization founded in 1999, for reputable
booksellers who sell online. The site lists books from a
portion of IOBA’s 300-plus members.
Livre Rare Book
Livre
Rare Book searches 497 bookshops with over 3.4
million books. This French site is also available in
English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian.
Maremagnum
Maremagnum
is based in Italy, and lists over 8 million books and
ephemera for sale. Its sellers are located worldwide,
and the website is available in Italian, French,
Spanish, and English. Shipping within 2 days is
guaranteed.
Scribblemonger
Scribblemonger
is US-based and includes about 300 booksellers.
Tom Folio
TomFolio
is a co-op, founded in 1999, whose members must adhere
to a code of ethics. They offer books from about 120
reputable independent booksellers from the United States
and a handful of other countries, along with a small
selection of antiques and collectibles.
Uniliber
Uniliber
is a Spanish site but is available in seven languages,
including English. It offers nearly 4 million books from
300 bookshops, most of them Spanish.
Bookzangle
Formerly called World Book Market, Bookzangle
describes itself as “an international group of
booksellers who believe that quality of books and
quality of service far outweigh quantity of listings.”
Established in 2004, they have high standards for their
sellers, who number a few dozen. Booksellers are based
in the UK, USA, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. They
offer bookselling software and many other services to
their members.
The big guys:
These are the huge bookselling marketplaces,
each of them listing the inventories of many thousands
of booksellers. If you want the biggest possible
assortment of books to search though, this is where you
want to go.
These sites the booksellers aren’t as closely vetted as
on the smaller bookselling marketplaces, so you wind up
with many very knowledgeable, reputable booksellers,
along with a few newbies who don’t really know about
books. Read descriptions carefully.
AbeBooks
AbeBooks was established way back in
1996, making it one of the first sites of its type, and
it is one of the biggest. Amazon now owns ABE, but it’s
still run as a standalone operation with offices in
Canada. Thousands of booksellers worldwide list their
books on ABE.
You can search AbeBooks using the form below or by
visiting this
page.
Amazon
Though Amazon
started out as a seller of new books, it’s now becoming
quite popular with booksellers who list used,
out-of-print, and collectible books there. (Do read
descriptions carefully, and email the seller with any
questions, as anyone with an Amazon account can list
there.)
There are Amazons in several other countries, too: Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.es, Amazon.it, Amazon.de.
Alibris
Alibris has been online since
1998 and offers many millions of books offered by
thousands of booksellers. It is the largest
independently-owned book marketplace and they are
involved in several social responsibility campaigns.
Offers DVDs, too. There’s also a UK site.
Meta search sites
Want to search a bunch of these marketplaces at once?
There are sites which will let you do just that.
- MareLibri
searches 9 of the sites listed above; available in 13
languages. Very nice.
- Via
Libri searches 18 different websites which
include the inventory of 20,000 booksellers worldwide.
You can register your wants and they will notify you
when the books are available.
- Addall
is independently owned and searches a few of the sites
listed above, along with textbook sites and behemoths
such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Walmart
- Used Book
Search searches books on the major bookselling
sites, and has a nice feature where you can just see
books located in particular countries.
- BookFinder4U
is another independently owned site which searches
over 100 bookstores including the biggies and some
indies. Two search forms: one for used, and another
for new books.
- ISBN.nu
searches a number of bookselling sites. It shows
pictures of book covers and has a really nifty
interface.
- Bookfinder
is owned by AbeBooks (which is owned by Amazon),
Bookfinder searches those sites as well as other major
bookselling marketplaces and websites, including many
of those listed above.