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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 17:13:50 -0400 (EDT)
To: pubyac-digest@nysernet.org
Subject: pubyac V1 #720
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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 21:20:15 PDT
From: Dana Lubow <danalubow@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: online booksellers
Mary Lou,
If you go to the Librarians' Index to the Internet (www.lii.org), put "used
books" in the search box, a very useful site comes up: BookFinder.com -
http://www.bookfinder.com/
The annotation reads: "Fast and efficient, this is the search engine to
start with for used, fine, and out-of-print books. It searches
Advanced Book Exchange, Amazon, Antiqbook, Bibliocity, Bibliofind, Powell's
Books, andYourBooks.com at once. Run by Anirvan Chatterjee, a graduate
student at the School of Information Management and Systems (was the Library
School), UC Berkeley."
Hope this helps,
Dana Lubow
Bruggemeyer Memorial Library
Monterey Park, CA
>From: Mary Lou Huzarewicz <huzarewi@pls.lib.ca.us>
>Reply-To: pubyac@nysernet.org
>To: PUBYAC@nysernet.org
>Subject: online booksellers
>Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 16:09:13 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Hello All,
>
>I am looking for an alternative to Amazon.com to locate out-of-print books
>on the Internet. Any suggestions? TIA!
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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 08:44:02 +0000
From: hgrady.Ops.Staff.Main.ACPL@everest.acpl.lib.in.us
Subject: Re: online booksellers
Bowker's Books Out of Print is on the internet. You have to register
for a password, but that is a simple enough process. It has a nice
interface and is easy to use. They are located at:
www.booksoutofprint.com Good Luck!
Heather Grady
Allen County Public Library
Heather Grady
Shawnee Branch Library
Allen County Public Library
Fort Wayne, IN
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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 10:18:13 -0400
From: "Balkin, Catherine" <Catherine.Balkin@HARPERCOLLINS.com>
Subject: Out of print books via internet
Amazon is wonderful, but they purchase their out of print books from dealers
who are on ABE or Interlock or Biblio. If you buy directly from one of those
three, it is ALWAYS less expensive because Amazon marks up the price quite a
bit. Their Internet addresses are:
ABE (Advanced Book Exchange)
http://www.abebooks.com
Interloc
http://www.interloc.com/
Bibliofind
http://www.bibliofind.com/
Also: http://www.bookfinder.com/
There are a few others, but those are the top three. And now there's MXFB
which is a wonderful tool. Just type in the information about the book, and
it spits out books from ABE, INTERLOC, POWELL'S BOOKS and a few others.
(Alas, not Bibliofind)
http://mxbf.com/
I hope this is useful in searching for an out of print book.
Catherine Balkin
Library Promotion Manager
HarperCollins Children's Books
catherine.balkin@harpercollins.com
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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 11:27:20 -0400
From: Julie Pfeiffer <JPFEIFFER@mail.mpl.lib.oh.us>
Subject: Re: policeman fingerplays
Sara Stein wrote:
>Amen to this, and amen to you! I'm surprised no one said this >before
now. I've spent the last 14 years editing "fireman" and >such out
of children's book manuscripts for Random House and >others, and it pains me
to see that other librarians have ignored >this.
This applies to the term "postman", as well. With the number of women
who work in the postal system, it is appropriate to use the term "mail
carrier" or "letter carrier". Yet I have seen picture books
published in the very recent past (1997, 1998), that still use
"postman". The book Harvey Hare, Postman Extraordinaire by Bernadette
Watts, 1997, is an example.
Not anything to ruin my day, just enough to irritate and realize we still have a
lot of eye-opening to do in this society.
Julie Pfeiffer
Youth Services Librarian
Middletown Public Library
Middletown, OH
jpfeiffer@mail.mpl.lib.oh.us
!
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!
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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 10:12:27 -0300 (ADT)
From: "A. Creech" <alisonc@is2.dal.ca>
Subject: Re: online booksellers
The advanced book exchange at www.abebooks.com. Powell's bookstore on
line are also excellent to deal with, www.powellsbooks.com. There are
numerous others, but those are two that i have dealt with that have been a
positive experience.
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Alison Creech
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
ak454@chebucto.ns.ca
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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 12:07:36 -0600
From: Lenore Nicolay <Lnicolay@colosys.net>
Subject: Re: online booksellers
For Out of print searches try "Powels Bookstore" in Portland, Oregon.
I
don't know their web sight but I know they have one. Just search for
powel's. Their phone # is 1-800-291-9676.
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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 09:14:35 -0700
From: Eastside Branch <sbeast@rain.org>
Subject: RE: online booksellers
On Wednesday, June 09, 1999 4:09 PM, Mary Lou Huzarewicz
[SMTP:huzarewi@pls.lib.ca.us] wrote:
>
> I am looking for an alternative to Amazon.com to locate out-of-print
books
> on the Internet. Any suggestions? TIA!
>From the Librarian's Index to the Internet
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/InternetIndex/:
Bibliofind - http://www.bibliofind.com/
A good online source for finding, evaluating, or pricing rare,
out-of-print, antiquarian materials, equivalent to an online, "American
Book Prices Current." See also Bookfinder.com and Advanced Book Exchange.
BookFinder.com - http://www.bookfinder.com/
Fast and efficient, this is the search engine to start with for used, fine,
and out-of-print books. It searches Advanced Book Exchange, Amazon,
Antiqbook, Bibliocity, Bibliofind, Powell's Books, and YourBooks.com at
once. Run by Anirvan Chatterjee, a graduate student at the School of
Information Management and Systems (was the Library School), UC Berkeley.
Databases
Advanced Book Exchange - Books - Used, rare, out-of-print -
http://www.abebooks.com/
Brings buyers and sellers of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books
together. Free to searchers and buyers. Searchable by author, title,
publisher or keywords and includes a directory of several hundred used book
dealers. See also Bibliofind.
Alibris - http://www.alibris.com/
Another database of out-of-print books. Formerly known as Interloc. See
also Advanced Book Exchange and Bibliofind.
"Come, and take choice of all my library, and so beguile thy sorrow."
(Shakespeare)
Marge Fauver, Librarian
Eastside Branch
Santa Barbara Public Library
1102 E. Montecito Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
805-963-3727
email: sbeast@rain.org (work)
mfauver@hotmail.com (personal)
Fax 617-344-0433
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