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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.

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.