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Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. It has a cornucopia of features divided into the following main categories: Library Management - E-book conversion - Syncing to e-book reader devices - Downloading news from the web and converting it into e-book form - Comprehensive e-book viewer - Content server for online access to your book collection

The Bibliophile Bookbase lists several million antiquarian books, rare books, used books, and out-of-print books, plus antique maps, atlases and rare prints. These are offered for sale by independent booksellers worldwide. When you make an enquiry or order books using our shopping cart, your enquiry or order goes directly to the bookseller or booksellers who have listed the books. They will contact you directly regarding availability, postage and payment options.

he primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB. Metadata will be harvestable in order to maximize dissemination, visibility and impact. Aggregators can integrate the records in their commercial services and libraries can integrate the directory into their online catalogues, helping scholars and students to discover the books. The directory will be open to all publishers who publish academic, peer reviewed books in Open Access and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in Open Access and meet academic standards.

BookSpot.com is a free resource center that simplifies the search for the best book-related content on the Web. From the site, quickly and easily find bestseller lists, book awards and reviews, electronic texts, online booksellers, antique books, author and publisher information, literary criticism, book news and events, and much more.

Hosted by John Mullan, professor of English at University College London, the Guardian's book club examines a book a month, via a weekly column in the Guardian Review, a live Q&A session with the author, and a blog-discussion of the featured novel. Mullan's first three columns discuss the book in question; his final column consists of a selection of your comments from the live event and the blog

Everything you need to know about fiction books and authors, find complete author book lists (bibliographies), discover fiction books in a series, read descriptions of individual books, search over 270,000 fiction titles using multiple criteria, keep track of what you're reading

Eight­eenth-Cen­tu­ry Book Track­er is ded­i­cated to in­dex­ing free­ly-a­vail­a­ble dig­i­tal fac­sim­iles of eight­eenth-cen­tury texts and cross-ref­er­enc­ing them to stand­ard bib­li­og­raph­i­cal ref­er­ence sources. This site pro­vides a clear­ing­house for dis­cov­er­ing and shar­ing links to eight­eenth-cen­tu­ry pri­mary ma­te­ri­als. Eight­eenth-Cen­tu­ry Book Track­er aims to build a da­ta­base of bib­lio­graph­ically ac­cu­rate rec­ords that link to freely-a­vail­able texts on­line. By pool­ing its users' ex­per­tise, the site brings bib­li­og­raph­i­cal order to the some­times hap­haz­ard world of mass dig­i­ti­za­tion. This site is de­voted to pre­serv­ing the iden­ti­ty of eight­eenth-cen­tury books in a dig­i­tal realm where such dis­tinc­tions are at risk of be­ing lost in a sea of mere text. The database currently includes 2,702 links, representing 1,232 texts and 22 periodicals.

The primary goal of the Text Creation Partnership is to create standardized, accurate XML/SGML encoded electronic text editions of early printed books. We transcribe and encode the page images of books from ProQuest's Early English Books Online, Gale Cengage's Eighteenth Century Collections Online, and Readex's Evans Early American Imprints.This work, and the resulting text files, are jointly funded and owned by more than 150 libraries worldwide. Ultimately, all of the TCP's work will be placed into the public domain for anyone to use.

The Web Site "Scottish Bibliographies Online Catalogue" presents information on and links to the following bibliographies: Bibliography of Scotland (BOS); Bibliography of Scottish Gaelic (BOSG); Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation (BOSLIT); Bibliography of the Scots Language (BOSLAN); Union Catalogue of Art Books in Libraries in Scotland (UCABLIS); US and Canadian Newspaper Holdings in Scottish Libraries; Scottish Book Trade Index (SBTI); and Scottish Books 1505-1640. As such this is an essential resource for anyone researching or studying Scots language, Scottish history, literature, and culture. It is useful for international scholars wishing to locate particular works or editions of works. The databases can be searched by subject, author or keyword, and there is a facility for a cross search.

This Web site is devoted to the project "Cyrillic Books of the 16-20 Centuries from the Collection of the State Public History Library" which was launched in 1999 and includes the library's electronic catalogue of rare books. The catalogue is constantly updated, and at the moment one can find descriptions of 222 books (331 copies) kept at the library

the internet resource dedicated to new titles, new authors, and the general scoop on the book industry. Use this site to search book reviews, read about the latest releases, watch author video clips, and learn about upcoming book events. Take a look around, bookmark this site, and stop back often; there are many new and exciting titles that await your discovery

the complete online text of Steven Marx's book, first published by Peter Lang (1985), and provided here by the author himself. Marx's book examines the theme of generational conflict in the works of the 16th-century court poet, Edmund Spenser, and the 18th/19th-century poet and artist, William Blake. The book touches upon the origins of pastoral debate or singing contests in: classical pastoral; in troubadour verse types such as the sirventes (sirventois); and elsewhere, and explores the tropes of pastoral singing-contests used by these two writers.

A huge archive of books and magazines about the history film, television, and radio. The Lantern is the name of the search engine that lets you search through more than 2,000,000 pages of scanned copies of the books and magazines in the MHDL. In those books and magazines you will find reviews and critiques of movies, radio programs, and television shows. You will also discover many periodicals about the movie, television, and radio industries in general.

Archipelago Books is a not-for-profit press devoted to publishing excellent english translations of classic and contemporary world literature. Seeking to develop a wider audience for international fiction and poetry in the USA, Archipelago Books has been working in partnership with like-minded organizations hosting readings and events for authors and translators. The community around Archipelago is growing, thanks to the enthusiasm of booksellers, professors, librarians, translators, and our devoted readers. FB page at https://www.facebook.com/archipelagobooks

Booklist is the American Library Association's official prepublication book review journal for public libraries. We review 8,000 books, audiobooks, videos, and electronic resources per year on every subject imaginable - both fiction and nonfiction, for adults and youths - making us the preeminent selection tool for working librarians.

OpenEdition Books est une plateforme de livres en sciences humaines et sociales. Plus de la moitié d'entre eux est en libre accès. Des services complémentaires sont proposés via les bibliothèques et institutions abonnées.

IBC, the leading exporters of Books and Serials from India with dedicated services of more than two decades to the Acquisitions Librarians and Scholars.We offers our personalized services for exporting of books from India

Specializing in rare books & manuscripts on Spain, Portugal and their former overseas possessions in Latin America, Brazil, Africa, Asia and Books Recently Published in Portugal

The BRITISH BOOK TRADE INDEX (BBTI) is an index of the names and brief biographical details and trade details of people who worked in the book trade in England and Wales and who were trading by 1851.