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bücher.de
In German.

! Buchhandel.de (in German). See also here (Wikipedia).

DOAB. The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a service of OAPEN Foundation, an international initiative dedicated to Open Access monograph publishing, based at the National Library in The Hague.
Go to: Browse by subject. The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books.

The Evening Standard:
Best online bookstores in the UK in 2024: Top places to shop for bibliophiles.

! Free Books Online: 200+ Places to Read & Download Free Ebooks (by Julia Reed, Custom Writing). An annotated link directory of great places to get free ebooks. See especially:
Education books and Textbooks.
Reference books.
Math, Science, and Programming.

Good Good Good.
Good Good Good is an independent media organization covering good news and resources about the good in the world. Go to:
9 Best Online Bookstores That Aren't Amazon.

The Independent:
Avoiding Amazon? The 5 best alternatives to the online bookseller giants.

MUO:
The 10 Best Amazon Alternatives to Buy Books Online.

Science Books Online.
Science Books Online lists free science e-books, textbooks, lecture notes, monographs, and other science related documents. All texts are available for free reading online, or for downloading in various formats.

Utopia:
Online-Buchhandlungen: 6 faire Buch-Shops unter der Lupe. In German.

! Verzeichnis Lieferbarer Bücher (VLB). Available books in German. See also here (Wikipedia).

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Blackwell´s Bookshops. With search engine.

! Buchhandel.de (in German). See also here (Wikipedia).

Buch und Medien Online. German books and media. Go to: VLB - Verzeichnis Lieferbarer Bücher. Books available in Germany. Excellent!

The Carnegie Mellon University: Find Textbooks.

Earth Pages (Wiley Blackwell). A starting point for web exploration in the earth sciences. Go to: Books. This book catalogue can be searched by author, title and from a list of books by category, as well from the entire list of titles alphabetically (by author or by title).

! Europeana (Europeana is a thematic network funded by the European Commission). Europeana links you to books and other texts, as well as to images, sounds and videos. More than 4.6 million digital items.

Huayu Nature Book Trade Co. Ltd., Beijing, P.R.China: Paleobotany and Palynology, and Paleontology. A great place to look.

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
One of the largest libraries in the world. Have a ook at the Wikipedia entry.

Sven von Loga, bookseller, Köln-Raderberg: Search for books in geoscience (in German).

! The On-line Books Page (edited by John Mark Ockerbloom, University of Pennsylvania).
An annotated index of more than 2000 books whose full text is available on-line. Search by author or by title.
The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet.

The Natural History Book Service (NHBS), Totnes, UK.

Springer: Links. A lot of the material available on this server is free of charge, such as access to catalogs, meta-information and requests for abstracts, which are fully accessible to anybody. Access to complete articles is restricted to subscribers to the printed version, who can apply for a user-ID and password. With search engine.

! Christian Weißpfennig, Schweinfurt, Germany: Buchpreis24.de. A book search and price comparison engine (in German).

! ZVAB, Zentrales Verzeichnis Antiquarischer Bücher, (mediantis AG), Berlin, München: Extensive database of German second hand booksellers (in German).
Visit the English website: ChooseBooks.com. This is a worldwide marketplace for used, rare, antiquarian and out-of-print books, autographs and ephemera items. Excellent!

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alibris. Books you thought you'd never find.

Amazon.com: Search Inside the Book. "Search Inside the Book" allows you to search millions of pages to find exactly the book you want.

The American Botanist Booksellers. American Botanist specializes in out-of-print books on agriculture, horticulture, olericulture and their history.

The Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America. Go to: Find a Book.

Antiquarian Books in Scandinavia. Search the databases of 49 Scandinavian antiquarian booksellers. Over 259.000 titles.

Biblio.com. Used books, textbooks, rare and out-of-print books. Go to: New & Used Textbooks.

Bibliofind (presented by Bibliofind and Amazon.com). More than ten million used and rare books, periodicals and ephemera offered for sale by thousands of booksellers around the world.

! Bookfinder.com, Berkeley, California: BookFinder.com connects readers to over 15,000 booksellers from around the world with a real open marketplace for all their online book shopping needs (including second hand books).

booklooker.de. German second hand books (in German).

Digital Bibliophile Community, Inc.: Find Books.

! eurobuch.com. Second hand books.

! International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers is an organisation that encompasses national associations of antiquarian booksellers around the world. It speaks for twenty nations and two thousand leading booksellers. Go to: ILAB-LILA Database Search. Excellent!

JustBooks. Second hand books (in German).

Sigrist Consulting GmbH, Switzerland: Antiquarian Books on the Internet. An extensive, international list of antiquarian book dealers.

! UsedBookSearch. A used book search engine (meta page) for secondhand, rare and out of print books. Over 25 million used books available worldwide.

! Christian Weißpfennig, Schweinfurt, Germany: Buchpreis24.de. A book search and price comparison engine (in German).

! Werzahltmehr.de (in German).
Portal for selling books, CDs etc.

! ZVAB, Zentrales Verzeichnis Antiquarischer Bücher, (mediantis AG), Berlin, München: Extensive database of German second hand booksellers (in German).
Visit the English website: ChooseBooks.com. This is a worldwide marketplace for used, rare, antiquarian and out-of-print books, autographs and ephemera items. Excellent!

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! eurobuch.com

Search by ISBN. Enter a book´s ISBN or UPC, select your preferred online bookstore, and click search. An ISBN is an International Standard Book Number. Every book sold anywhere in the world should have a unique ISBN, meaning that you can find any book in the world simply with that one number, which never duplicates. A UPC is a Universal Product Code, which is used in bar code format on all manner of goods for sale.

! Wikipedia, the German website: ISBN-Suche. All in one page. Excellent!

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