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This week: want lists</q></strong> (21 December 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">No, don't worry, I'm not going to make you go shopping this week, I know you've done quite enough. I'm going to provide you with another helpful cut-out-and-keep list, so you can stick it on your notice board to use when the shopping urge returns...Books (old, rare etc.): Try...<em>www.BookFinder.com</em>.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Circle (United States), <a href="http://circle.adventist.org/browse/resource.phtml?leaf=3501"><q>Resource Description</q></a></strong> (11 December 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en"><em>BookFinder.com</em> is a one-stop search site that lets users view the collections of over 40,000 sellers of new, used, rare, and out of print books. The forty million titles available comprise the largest book catalog available anywhere, either online or offline. It is one of the best online resources for book related ecommerce. <em>BookFinder.com</em>'s goal is to provide fellow readers unbiased real-time information about books available online.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>The Evening Standard (London) (United Kingdom), <q>Mother's Extra Pair of Hands; Are You a Working Woman With No Time to Shop for Your Family?</q></strong> (4 December 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Bookmark <span style="white-space: nowrap"><em>http://www.bookfinder.com</em>,</span> which offers access to millions of used, rare and out-of-print books.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>The Reader (United States), <a href="http://www.thereader.com/createpage.asp?ContentID=771"><q>Little Blood Suckers</q></a></strong> (4 December 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Dracula: A Toy Theatre was first published by Scribner's as a companion piece to the Broadway production. A first edition Toy Theatre, its characters and set pieces intact, is not particularly rare -- it can be found easily by searching <em>www.BookFinder.com</em>, or other used book sites -- but runs between $200 and $350, unsigned. A signed copy, in very good condition, can bring $400 to $500.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Taza Radio (United States), <q>Indus Achievers</q></strong> (3 December 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Anirvan Chatterjee is not an achiever because he is a CEO of a company. He is an achiever because, he started the unique <em>BookFinder.com</em> at a young age while studying at UC Berkeley. He's an achiever beacuse of his sharp focus and his perseverance.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[BOOK]</span> <strong> <q>The Complete Idiot's Guide to Car Care and Repair Illustrated</q></strong> by <strong>Dan Ramsey</strong> (3 December 2002) </p> <blockquote>Owner's Manual: <q><span lang="en">If you have access to the Internet, check out www.<em>bookfinder</em> or online auctions such as www.ebay.com.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[BOOK]</span> <strong> <q>Nonfiction Book Proposals Anybody can Write</q></strong> by <strong>Elizabeth Lyon</strong> (3 December 2002) </p> <blockquote>Resource Directory: <q><span lang="en">Web Resources...Bookstores online:...<em>www.bookfinder.com</em></span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (United States), <q>Personal Tech: My favorite Web sites</q></strong> (1 December 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Out of Print <em>Book Finder</em> [<em>www.BookFinder.com</em>]: Have you ever wondered if a book you read as a child was really as good as you remember it being? The only way to find out is to get a copy. Many are often out of print by the time you get interested in them again. A friend searched for a copy of 'Carbonel, the King of Cats' for years, and a search here turned up numerous copies in seconds. Just enter the book's name, and a list of available copies and dealers pops up within seconds, along with a range of conditions and prices that can fit just about any budget.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>PC World (United States), <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,34799,pg,4,00.asp"><q>Lots of Bots</q></a></strong> (December 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Once you know what you want to buy, you have to figure out who's got the best deal. That's where shopping bots earn their keep. These software agents scour the Web or their own massive databases for products you designate. Then, like the Greek messenger Hermes on amphetamines, they zip back with a list of prices and places to buy. If they do the job right, bots spare you from visiting dozens of stores to collect prices and allow you to sniff out the steals from the so-so deals...There are also category-specific bots, such as <em>BookFinder.com</em> and CDPriceCompare.com.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Internet-101.com (United States), <a href="http://www.internet-101.com/Zillman-Internet-Columns/december2002_newsletter.htm"><q>Shopping Online With Bots and Brains</q></a></strong> (December 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Shopping online by visiting and browsing various name brand stores as well as using ShoppingBots to find the lowest price and availability has become a common place necessity in these days of homeland security and various unpleasant happenings. This column will list what I consider to be the very best resources and sources for the shopper in today's fast paced and ever changing world. I will list the latest ShoppingBots including price comparison Bots as well as the conventional shopping malls on the Internet. I will finish up this column with some excerpts from one of my previous columns on the security and safety of shopping on the Internet. Now let's begin with some excellent resources for this upcoming shopping season divided between Shopping Online Resources and then Shopping and Comparison Bots...<em>BookFinder.com</em>, The Open Marketplace for Books Online, <em>http://www.bookfinder.com/</em></span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[BOOK]</span> <strong> <q>Law Library Collection Development in the Digital Age</q></strong> by <strong>Michael G. Chiorazzi & Gordon Russell (eds.)</strong> (December 2002) </p> <blockquote>Re-Engineering the Law Library Resources Today for Tomorrow's Users: A Response to "How Much of Your Print Collection Is Really on WESTLAW or LEXIS-NEXIS?": <q><span lang="en">It is easy to do a global search of the holding of used and rare bookstores on the Web. Sites such as <em>BookFinder.com</em> <<span style="white-space: nowrap"><em>http://bookfinder.com/</em>>...provide</span> access to thousands of rare and out of print books.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Whole Earth (United States), <q>The Amateur Scientist</q></strong> (December 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">For many decades the 'Amateur Scientist' column in Scientific American was a glorious outpost of dedicated enthusiasm. Here expensive scientific gear such as early lasers and x-ray machines were first presented in great detail as affordable do-it-yourself hacks. While the current editors of Scientific American stupidly canceled this clearinghouse, the old columns are remarkably timeless, and offer interested buffs the means to make cloud chambers, spectrometers, seismographs, telescopes, microscopes and all manner of cool instruments using only the most basic kind of stuff you'd find in basements or discount mail order venues...'The Scientific American Book of Projects for The Amateur Scientist', C.L. Stong 1960, 584 pages, Simon and Schuster, used copy $40-$250: <em>BookFinder.com</em>.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>The Argus (Montreal) (Canada), <q>La bibliotheque du Centre Canadien d'Architecture</q></strong> (December 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="fr">Le marché des livres épuisés, anciens et rares est scruté à travers des catalogues d'antiquaires et une sélection de sites Internet tels...<em>BookFinder.com</em></span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[BOOK]</span> <strong> <q>People Promoting and People Opposing Animal Rights: In Their Own Words</q></strong> by <strong>John M. Kistler</strong> (30 November 2002) </p> <blockquote>Michael Tobias: <q><span lang="en">As for my books (there are twenty-five available), most can be found at www.abe.com; <em>www.bookfinder.com</em>; www.amazon.com; and www.bn.com.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>The Grand Rapids Press (MI) (United States), <q>Shelf Life</q></strong> (17 November 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">The Internet has been both a blessing and a curse for used book dealers, said John Edwards, manager of Argos Book Shop. Ray Walsh, owner of Curious Book Shop and The Archives Book Shop in East Lansing, opened Argos 26 years ago, long before the Internet had come into popular use. Argos still relies heavily on walk-in customers and sells 10-15 percent of its books over the Internet. In addition toabebooks.com, several other Web sites, including Amazon, eBay, <em>BookFinder.com</em>, alibris.com and bibliofind.com sell used books.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Forbes (United States), <a href="http://www.forbes.com/bow/b2c/review.jhtml?id=1433"><q>Best of the Web</q></a></strong> (16 November 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Does exactly what its names implies, though not too much else. Created six years ago by then 19-year old UC Berkeley undergrad Anirvan Chatterjee, <em>BookFinder.com</em> now rakes through the collections of 40,000 new, used and out-of-print book sellers including Powell's Books and Abebooks. Search results are then arranged by ascending price order, and you are directed to the book seller's site for purchase...Separates prices by new and used titles.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>The New York Times (United States), <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/08/arts/design/08ANTI.html"><q>They Never Left Home Without 'Em</q></a></strong> (8 November 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">In the mid-19th century, peace, prosperity and the development of railway and steamship networks made foreign travel commonplace for middle-class Europeans and Americans. Because these new tourists ostensibly sought self-improvement as well as pleasure, they invariably had at hand the relevant title published by one of the three Leviathans of guidebook publishing: the German firm of Baedeker (which published guidebooks in German, French and English), John Murray of London and the Guides Joanne from the Parisian publisher Hachette...With the shift of the antiquarian book trade to the Internet, 19th- and early 20th-century guidebooks are easy to find through sources like <em>BookFinder.com</em>...They are not necessarily expensive, with price, as in all antiquarian book-selling, depending on age, scarcity and condition.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[TV]</span> <strong>The View (ABC) (United States), <a href="http://abc.abcnews.go.com/daytime/theview/episodes/2002/20021104.html"><q>Ordering Great Holiday Presents Online</q></a></strong> (6 November 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">And this, <em>BookFinder.com</em> is for people who love to read books or love to give the gift of reading to their friends. And here we are, our very own Barbara Walters ['How to Talk with Practically Anybody About Practically Anything' by Barbara Walters], and also various collectors' editions. This is from Charles Dickens ['A Christmas Carol'], and it's $150. It's [<em>BookFinder.com</em>] a wonderful gift idea for readers in your family.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[BOOK]</span> <strong> <q>Among the Gently Mad: Strategies and Perspectives for the Book-Hunter in the 21st Century</q></strong> by <strong>Nicholas A. Basbanes</strong> (6 November 2002) </p> <blockquote>Booking the World: <q><span lang="en">I would not even consider such an undertaking if I did not have...<em>BookFinder.com</em> to help me get there.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>The Daily Telegraph (London) (United Kingdom), <q>Great places to find books</q></strong> (5 November 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Ebay seems to be the only site that comes up whenever I search for secondhand books. Does anybody know of either seller sites or book search sites? My immediate interest is a copy of Access Insider by Margaret Levine Young, originally published in 1993...Here are some good sites for secondhand books...<em>BookFinder.com</em>.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Long Beach Press-Telegram (United States), <q>Before You Dream of Big Dollars, Call an Appraiser</q></strong> (3 November 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Q: In the mid-1970s, I inherited a six-volume set of Winston Churchill's memoirs. The books are in mint condition. How do I find out if they have special value? A: To research resale value (retail) on modern books or search for wanted titles...[a] good source is <em>www.BookFinder.com</em>.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>The Age (Australia), <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/11/01/1036027033445.html"><q>Biblio Tech</q></a></strong> (1 November 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">The Internet is a bibliophile's paradise. Sites such as Alibris and <em>BookFinder.com</em> put the catalogues of tens of thousands of rare and second-hand bookstores at your fingertips.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>InStyle (United States), <a href="http://www.instyle.com/instyle/read/inthisissue/0,12849,380540,00.html"><q>Easy Shopping: 143 Great Websites</q></a></strong> (November 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">We've obsessively surfed, searched and browsed so you don't have to. Our guide to the Web's best retail sites... <em>BookFinder.com</em>. With listings culled from more than 40,000 booksellers, this is the perfect resource to track down treasured out-of-print, rare or foreign-language titles.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Saveur (United States), <a href="http://www.saveur.com/SAV_Main/1,3136,18-1-252-0-0-0,00.html"><q>Clementine Paddleford: First Champion of American Regional Cooking</q></a></strong> (November 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">'How America Eats' (Scribner, 1960) was Clementine Paddleford's seminal work, but she wrote many other books, including 'How America Eats: Best Recipes of 1949' (United Newspaper Corp., 1949), 'A Flower for My Mother' (Henry Holt and Company, 1958), 'Clementine Paddleford's Cook Young Cookbook' (Pocket Books, 1966), and 'The Best in American Cooking: Recipes' (Scribner, 1970). All are out of print, but you can sometimes find copies at used bookstores, at Kitchen Arts & Letters, or through <em>BookFinder.com</em> (<em>www.bookfinder.com</em>).</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Siliconeer (United States), <a href="http://www.siliconeer.com/november2002.html"><q>The DotCom That Could: The Success of BookFinder.com</q></a></strong> (November 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Looking back, I'm [Anirvan Chatterjee] still surprised to see my after-school hobby survive five years, spawn a business, and turn into a heavily-used Internet resource. As a high school student, I imagined that I would spend my career working in a stultifying Dilbertesque cubicle farm in the bowels of some Silicon Valley tech company. As an accidental entrepreneur, I'm thankful that I've gotten a chance to run a business with friends, and draw from my passion for both books and computers.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[BOOK]</span> <strong> <q>Not Your Mother's Cookbook: Unusual Recipes for the Adventurous Cook</q></strong> by <strong>Marina Bear</strong> (November 2002) </p> <blockquote>Drunken Trout: <q><span lang="en">Trout are rarely found swimming around in streams of Scotch whiskey, but those two flavors do go awfully well together, as demonstrated by this recipe, found for us by Marie Elena Monaco in Michelle Evans' excellent book, Easy Seafood Recipes [published by Dell in 1975, long out-of-print, but we found plenty of used copies for sale on the excellent web site called <em>www.BookFinder.com</em>].</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[BOOK]</span> <strong> <q>Warmly Inscribed: The New England Forger and Other Book Tales</q></strong> by <strong>Lawrence Goldstone & Nancy Goldstone</strong> (November 2002) </p> <blockquote>Books@Profit.com: <q><span lang="en">There was a fifth service, <em>BookFinder.com</em>, which was merely a superlisting, combining the listings of all four of the other search engines on one page.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Far Eastern Economic Review (Hong Kong) (Hong Kong), <q>The thrill of the search</q></strong> (24 October 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Ambivalence about the growing sophistication of Internet search engines is expressed. On the one hand it is great to have so much at ones fingertips; on the other users miss the excitement of tracking something down. All this came to mind with the announcement onfrom <em>BookFinder.com</em>, probably the biggest book search engine on the Net, that it had overhauled and relaunched its Web site. The site is a literary shopping engine, allowing readers to comparison-shop for new, used and rare books from bookstores around the world. It is a great site and has a wonderfully personal touch. But one cannot help feeling that some of the fun is being taken out of life.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Dow Jones Newswire (United States), <q>Loose Wire</q></strong> (24 October 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">All this came to mind with the announcement on October 8 from California-based <em>BookFinder.com</em>, probably the biggest book search engine on the Net, that it had overhauled and relaunched its Web site. The free Web site was originally developed as a class project by Anirvan Chatterjee in Berkeley in 1996, but has since grown to be a "literary shopping engine," allowing readers to comparison-shop for new, used and rare books from a whopping 40,000 bookstores around the world. I defy you to not find the book you're looking for.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Dow Jones Newswire (United States), <a href="http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/021017/72/33tst.html"><q>Looking For A Book Used To Involve Bookstores</q></a></strong> (17 October 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">All this came to mind with the announcement last week from <em>BookFinder.com</em>, probably the biggest book-search engine on the Net, that it had relaunched its Web site, including searches in French, German and Italian. The free Web site, developed as a class project by Anirvan Chatterjee in 1996, allows readers to comparison shop for new, used, and rare books from about 40,000 bookstores around the world. I defy you to not find the book you're looking for.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>New Media Age (United Kingdom), <a href="http://www2.newmediazero.com/nma/story.asp?id=237555"><q>Case Study: BookFinder.com</q></a></strong> (3 October 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en"><em>BookFinder.com</em> isn't an e-commerce book retailer, but its case is still relevant to e-tail. It was created by Anirvan Chatterjee, then 19 years old, as a university project while he was a sophomore at Berkeley University, California. <em>BookFinder.com</em> was a way to help Chatterjee search for books more easily. It was also a way, he says, to give independent stores a way to stand against the Amazons of the world. 'Small booksellers love working with us,' he says. 'We even out the marketplace for small stores and keep a friction-free market for them.' Now his student project, never intended as a business, aggregates 40,000 booksellers with 40m titles around the world, from big players like Amazon to family shops in Scottish villages.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[BOOK]</span> <strong> <q>Getting Started in Parapsychology</q></strong> by <strong>Carlos S. Alvarado</strong> (1 October 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">For out of print books I recommend <em>BookFinder.com</em> (<span style="white-space: nowrap"><em>http://www.bookfinder.com</em>),</span> a search engine that connects with several book services that either carry used books themselves, or display the holdings of small used bookstores throughout the United States and in some European countries.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[BOOK]</span> <strong> <q>The Unfinished Revolution: How to Make Technology Work for Us--Instead of the Other Way Around</q></strong> by <strong>Michael L. Dertouzos</strong> (1 October 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en"><em>BookFinder.com</em> is another service, which searches several book-finder services like biblofind.com, abebooks.com, and usedbooks.com. Whether you visit <em>BookFinder.com</em> or any of the member services, you spend a couple of seconds to fill one or two lines of a standard e-form, which searches the inventory of all participating bookstores. Imagine how long it would take you to locate, visit, and query each of them manually. You would never do it.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[BOOK]</span> <strong> <q>Photo-Imaging: A Complete Guide to Alternative Processes</q></strong> by <strong>Jill Enfield</strong> (October 2002) </p> <blockquote>Sources: <q><span lang="en">When Enfield began painting on the surface of her photographs in 1984, she was told she couldn't mix oil and water. The same spirit that allowed her to find a way to do just that infuses this book with creative rebelliousness. She developed a style of fusion photography that uses everything from the oldest techniques of photography through the latest digital formats. Enfield creates sumptuous, dreamlike images using the techniques of cyanotypes, kallitypes, platinum and palladium prints, ink jet transfers, tintypes, Polaroid transfers, and emulsion lifts. She finds ways of marrying the computer and the darkroom...<em>BookFinder.com</em>, <em>www.BookFinder.com</em> is a service for finding out-of-print books.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[BOOK]</span> <strong> <q>Not Your Mother's Cookbook: Unusual Recipes for the Adventurous Cook</q></strong> by <strong>Margaret Fox</strong> (October 2002) </p> <blockquote>Drunken Trout: <q><span lang="en">Published by Dell in 1975, long out-of-print, but we found plenty of used copies for sale on the excellent website called <em>www.bookfinder.com</em>.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Jewish World Review (United States), <a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0902/dtmax.html"><q>A Rare Book Collector's New Best-Friend</q></a></strong> (20 September 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Giving Chatterjee credit for revolutionizing book collecting may be like giving the man who hammered in the Golden Spike credit for building the railroad. Still, where would I be without him? More to the point, where would my Beddoes be? (I was now thinking of Copy No. 37 as 'my Beddoes.')</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>The News & Observer (NC) (United States), <q>Used books dot-com</q></strong> (11 September 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">I had searched for years for a book called 'Lady and the Tigers,' by Olga Greenlaw. I had heard it was a remarkable account of this intrepid nurse's adventures with Claire Chennault's Flying Tigers in China. But I had never located a single copy until Abebooks found a seller in Australia. If Abebooks became a place where collectors could find rare material, it also spurred new sellers to enter the market. And as other sites such as <em>BookFinder.com</em> came online (<em>www.bookfinder.com</em>), the nature of used-book pricing began to change.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>The Washington Times (United States), <a href="http://www.washtimes.com/sports/20020901-4317299.htm"><q>District can't get Olympics, baseball</q></a></strong> (1 September 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">By the way, after I interviewed Bill Belichick's dad Steve last week, I immediately logged on to the Internet and bought a used copy of his 1962 book, "Football Scouting Methods" -- a bargain at $19.95 (shipping included). It was the last copy available at <em>BookFinder.com</em>. Eat your heart out.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[BOOK]</span> <strong> <q>The Brief, Madcap Life of Kay Kendall</q></strong> by <strong>Eve Golden & Kim Kendall</strong> (September 2002) </p> <blockquote>Acknowledgments: <q><span lang="en">The following Web sites were useful for locating people, books, and other information...<em>bookfinder.com</em>.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[RADIO]</span> <strong>Mosaik (WDR) (Germany), <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20030111014239/http://www.wdr.de/radio/wdr3/sendungen/mosaik/20020807.html"><q>Klicken oder stöbern - bedrohen die Antiquariate im Internet den klassischen Buchhandel?</q></a></strong> (7 August 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="de">Internet-Suche für antiquarische Bücher...<em>www.bookfinder.com</em></span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[BOOK]</span> <strong> <q>Jazz (NPR Curious Listener's Guide)</q></strong> by <strong>Loren Schoenberg</strong> (6 August 2002) </p> <blockquote>Resources for Curious Listeners: <q><span lang="en">Some of these books may be teetering on the edge of being out of print. The websites <em>BookFinder.com</em> (www.bookflnder.com) and half.com are great places to find virtually any book you are looking for.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>The Kansas City Star (United States), <q>Need a Textbook? Check Out Online Shopping Comparison Sites</q></strong> (4 August 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Standing in bookstore lines to buy new or used texts doesn't have to be part of a college student's back-to-school ritual anymore. Several online shopping comparison services will do the bargain hunting for you. Give them the title or, better yet, the ISBN number for the book you want, and they'll search a stable of booksellers to see who has the book in stock, and at what price...I tested several comparison services with a search for a hardcover chemistry textbook, General Chemistry by Kenneth W. Whitten, published in March 1996, ISBN number 0030061881. Its list price: $113. <em>BookFinder.com</em>: This search yielded two booksellers - Half.com again, with its $3.50 used copy, and Alibris, with copies at $45.20 and $104.65.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>IOBA Standard (United States), <a href="http://www.ioba.org/newsletter/V8/bookfinder.html"><q>Interview of Anirvan Chatterjee and Charlie Hsu, BookFinder.com</q></a></strong> (August 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">For example, we've been working for over a year now on a set of infrastructure improvements to <em>BookFinder.com</em> that (among many other things) will help users search for books in languages other than English. I'm [Chatterjee] currently working on a project to figure out how we can best improve new users' experience with the site.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>MarthaStewart.com (United States), <a href="http://www.marthastewart.com/page.jhtml?type=content&id=tvs7037"><q>Shell Collecting Jars</q></a></strong> (August 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Recommended reading: Percy A. Morris 'Peterson Field Guide: Shells of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies' (Houghton Mifflin, 1995; out of print). For out-of-print books, visit <em>BookFinder.com</em>.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[BOOK]</span> <strong> <a href="http://www.aw.com/catalog/academic/product/1,4096,0201748401,00.html"><q>E-Commerce Basics: Technology Foundations & E-Business Applications</q></a></strong> by <strong>William S. Davis & John Benamati</strong> (24 July 2002) </p> <blockquote>Intermediary Services: <q><span lang="en">Shopping bots, briefly introduced in Chapter 4, are another type of information service. They are commonly used to locate the best price for a specific product, such as a Tom Clancy novel (Figure [<em>BookFinder.com</em>] 5.14), returning a list of sources in increasing price order (Figure [<em>BookFinder.com</em>] 5.15).</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Martha Stewart Living (CBS) (United States), <a href="http://www.marthastewart.com/page.jhtml?type=content&id=tvs7230"><q>Pugs 101 with Marc</q></a></strong> (19 July 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Recommended Reading: Anne Rogers Clark and Andrew H. Brace 'The International Encyclopedia of Dogs' (out of print). For out-of-print books, visit <em>BookFinder.com</em>.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[BOOK]</span> <strong> <q>Mama's in the Kitchen</q></strong> by <strong>Barbara Swell</strong> (15 July 2002) </p> <blockquote>Finding Vintage Cookbooks: <q><span lang="en"><em>BookFinder.com</em> / <em>www.bookfinder.com</em> / On-line search site for new, used, out-of-print, and rare books</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>The Bookseller (United Kingdom), <q>We're Even Discussing Canada: It's Quiet in the US Book Industry, but Pessimism Has Abated</q></strong> (5 July 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Old-fashioned discount wars are back, particularly online (which will surely help frontlist sales), with Amazon marking down all titles over $15 and reducing the threshold for free shipping. BN.com has pushed discounts on its top titles back to 40%, and is shipping all orders of two books or more for free. And rising general e-tailer Buy.com has challenged Amazon by promising to exceed any of its discounts by 10%. All of which has been enough to distract us from spring's angst over the precipitous rise of online used book sales (including newly released titles and even advanced reading copies) everywhere from Amazon to Half.com to <em>BookFinder.com</em></span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>The Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Australia), <q>Drag Net</q></strong> (3 July 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en"><em>BookFinder.com</em> does exactly that. No sales here, just a search engine with links to those booksellers which stock your edition. The results of my search were plentiful...The FAQ here is excellent...and will really help your search.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Yahoo! Internet Life (United States), <a href="http://www.yil.com/issues/guide.asp?volume=08&issue=07"><q>50 Most Incredibly Useful Sites</q></a></strong> (July 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Track Down Any Book. <em>www.BookFinder.com</em>. Everyone knows where to buy popular books online, but hunting down the rarer ones can be a challenge. <em>BookFinder.com</em> specializes in out-of-print books and has listings from 40,000 booksellers to assist you in tracking down a tome in any language. If you're looking for a particular edition you can search by ISBN number, and the results page includes prices so you can determine the cheapest place to buy the book at a glance.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[BOOK]</span> <strong> <q>Patent It Yourself [9th Edition]</q></strong> by <strong>David Pressman</strong> (July 2002) </p> <blockquote>Books of Use and Interest: <q><span lang="en">Best-selling patent book, recommended by patent attorneys, inventors, librarians and journalists...You can often acquire out-of-print books from online booksellers, such as Amazon.com, Powells.com, and <em>BookFinder.com</em>.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>The Daily Hampshire Gazette (MA) (United States), <a href="http://www.gazettenet.com/dining/chefsbest/06282002.html"><q>Kids in the Kitchen</q></a></strong> (28 June 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">The book was given away after my sisters and I grew up and left home. But I've never forgotten it. On impulse recently, I logged onto <em>www.BookFinder.com</em> and typed in what I thought had been its title: "Come Into The Kitchen." Somewhat to my surprise - considering that 40 years or more have gone by since I last saw the cookbook - I got it right, and there were several copies available from British booksellers. I ordered one and when it came, I was delighted to find that the cookbook, albeit rather dated, is just as I remember, right down to the scone recipe and the sketches of a prim-looking girl in an apron!</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Forbes (United States), <a href="http://www.forbes.com/bow/b2c/review.jhtml?id=1509"><q>Best of the Web</q></a></strong> (25 June 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">This issue of Best of the Web is devoted to reinvesting in yourself. Whether you are seeking a source for fresh innovations or a place to learn about Shakespeare or the Genomics Era, you'll find it here...<em>BookFinder.com</em> is simply a quick bot. You cannot browse through subjects looking for a title. Searching <em>BookFinder.com</em> yields hits from more than 40,000 booksellers, and will link you directly to the item page at other sites like ABE, Alibris, and <em>JustBooks</em>. BEST: Price comparisons are quick and efficient due to the eclectic mix of other booksellers and portals.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>The Washington Times (United States), <q>Car Buffs Can Find Books on the Internet</q></strong> (14 June 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">The Internet can come to the rescue of auto enthusiast looking for hard-to-find books and other material on the subject. They can try the online book search engine <em>www.BookFinder.com</em>. <em>BookFinder.com</em> is a free service that scans an estimated 40 million books on any subject and connects searchers with a network of thousands of booksellers...'You may not be able to afford a vintage vehicle, but you can always read about it,' says founder Anirvan Chatterjee.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>The Telegraph (London) (United Kingdom), <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fconnected%2F2002%2F11%2F06%2Fecrover06.xml"><q>Over to You: Books, Shillings and Exercises</q></a></strong> (11 June 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Ebay seems to be the only site that comes up whenever I search for secondhand books. Does anybody know of either seller sites or book search sites?...Here are some good sites for secondhand books...<em>BookFinder.com</em></span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>The New York Times Magazine (United States), <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/09/magazine/09BOOKS.html"><q>An Actual Internet Success Story</q></a></strong> (9 June 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">This isn't like Napster putting music up on the Internet so you can download it free, but the market has broadened in a way all but unthinkable seven or eight years ago. Anirvan Chatterjee, who started <em>BookFinder.com</em>, says: 'You're almost guaranteed that if there's a copy of a book out there, anywhere, you have access to it.' A foreseeable consequence of this, he adds, is that publishers are monitoring what does sell on the Internet, with a view to keeping more and more books in print and in the catalog -- push-button technologies allow them to do this. In other words, the numbers of available new books will continue to grow, and sharply.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[BOOK]</span> <strong> <q>Creating Cyber Libraries: An Instructional Guide for School Library Media Specialists</q></strong> by <strong>Kathleen W Craver</strong> (30 May 2002) </p> <blockquote>Constructing Web Libraries: <q><span lang="en">Bookstores -- link to commercial bookstores and textbook companies like...<em>BookFinder.com</em>.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>The New York Times (United States), <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/16/technology/circuits/16SHOP.html"><q>Book Bargains to Warm Mommy's Heart</q></a></strong> (16 May 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Normally, when I decide to buy a lot of books online, fast, I don't do it at Amazon.com. I'm a habitual used-book buyer who trolls for bargains at <em>BookFinder.com</em> and Half.com, where I can easily find cheap well-thumbed copies to remind me of all the other readers who came before me.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[TV]</span> <strong>BBC (United Kingdom), <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/cases/case17.shtml"><q>Q: Why get online? A: To find an out-of-print book</q></a></strong> (15 May 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Finally, at <em>BookFinder.com</em>, I find hundreds of copies. <em>BookFinder.com</em> has a database that taps into thousands of shops across the world with prices ranging up to $100. I find a copy for just $14 and email the bookshop direct to check that the copy looks like the one currently sitting somewhere in London's sewers.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>The Times (San Francisco Bay Area) (United States), <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/3243038.htm"><q>Avid Reader Turns Passion Into Start-up. A Love of Books and a Search for Doonesbury Titles Led Former Cal Student to Launch BookFinder.com</q></a></strong> (11 May 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">All Anirvan Chatterjee wanted to do was complete a Doonesbury book collection. What he ended up getting was his own start-up business venture...Now, the site receives millions of hits per month from book hunters searching for first editions of "Valley of the Dolls" or "The Smart Little Mouse." And with the site's ability to search more than 40,000 sellers, many go away satisfied. "It's a good site to try and locate a title," said Lynn Kuehl, co-owner at Diablo Bookstore in Walnut Creek. Kuehl said he mainly uses the site to research book values and special order books for customers from sellers the engine searches. "It's really quite helpful," Kuehl said. "We definitely use it." The site is free for users. The business is supported mainly through advertising, augmented by referral fees from some sellers. After conducting a book search, users can link to several book sellers to buy it. "We wanted to be really, really ethical with the site, and make sure people knew what was going on," Chatterjee said. "We didn't want any hidden finder fees or things like that." The philosophy seems to have worked. While other new and used book sites such as BigWords.com, Books.com and <em>JustBooks</em> have gone through restructurings, acquisitions or shutdowns, <em>BookFinder.com</em> continues building on its success.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Martha Stewart Living (CBS) (United States), <a href="http://www.marthastewart.com/page.jhtml?type=content&id=tvs7024"><q>Garden Design with Elizabeth</q></a></strong> (10 May 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Garden Design Books...Gertrude Jekyll and Graham Stuart Thomas (Editor) 'Colour in the Flower Garden (Royal Horticultural Society Classic Garden Writers)' (Timber, 1995; out of print) A reprint of the 1908 gardening classic by celebrated English painter, landscape designer, and writer Gertrude Jekyll, this tome offers a guided tour of her garden, complete with black-and-white photographs and fold-out garden maps... Try <em>BookFinder.com</em> for rare and out-of-print books.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (United States), <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/bym/tech/news/may02/41248.asp"><q>Bytes: Technology Briefing</q></a></strong> (7 May 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Searching for books online - rare, used or new - is easier with a Web site like <em>www.BookFinder.com</em>. This search site claims to scan the inventories of over 40,000 booksellers, 'from behemoths like Amazon.com to tiny mom-and-pop indies,' for matches to book queries. Type in the book's title or an author to find out where a book is for sale and at what price. Once linked to the book, visitors can buy it online direct from the bookseller. The addition of used book stores to the search is valuable for finding titles that online giants say are out of print.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>The Miami Herald (United States), <q>Action Line</q></strong> (5 May 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">'I'm trying to find the value of a book given to me by my grandfather. It's the original 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington. Where can I call to find out its value?'...Note that some booksellers will use 'very good' or 'near fine' to bridge gaps between the categories. More information is available at Abe Books. Log on to <em>www.BookFinder.com</em>/help.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>The Augusta Chronicle (Georgia) (United States), <a href="http://www.augustachronicle.com/stories/050202/fea_095-5682.000.shtml"><q>Web Site Offers Book Search</q></a></strong> (2 May 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Searching for books online - be they rare, used or new - is simple with a site like <em>BookFinder.com</em>. This specialty search site claims to scan the inventories of more than 40,000 booksellers, 'from behemoths like Amazon.com to tiny mom-and-pop indies,' for matches to your book hunts. You can type in the book's title or an author to find out where a book is for sale, and at what price. Once linked to the book of your choice you can then buy it online direct from the bookseller. The addition of used-book stores to the search is invaluable as it turns up some books that online giants say are out of print ... and saves money as well.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>The Times Union (Albany, NY) (United States), <q>Best Bets</q></strong> (2 May 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">For bookworms Searching for books online -- be they rare, used or new -- is simple with a site like <em>BookFinder.com</em>. This specialty search site claims to scan the inventories of more than 40,000 booksellers, 'from behemoths like Amazon.com to tiny mom-and-pop indies,' for matches to your book hunts. You can type in the book's title or an author to find out where a book is for sale, and at what price.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[BOOK]</span> <strong> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0971577838/ref=nosim/bookfindercom0e"><q>Selling Used Books Online</q></a></strong> by <strong>Stephen Windwalker</strong> (May 2002) </p> <blockquote>Bookselling Business: How We Got Here: <q><span lang="en">One of the most venerable booksellers' databases, <em>www.BookFinder.com</em> introduces its book-searching function with this brief but remarkable description: 'We work with a number of new and used book sellers and listings services, aggregating the holdings of over 40,000 different booksellers on one search engine.'</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[BOOK]</span> <strong> <q>The Marketplace Annotated Bibliography: A Christian Guide to Books on Work, Business and Vocation</q></strong> by <strong>Pete Hammond, R. Paul Stevens, Todd Svanoe</strong> (May 2002) </p> <blockquote>How to Find Out-of-Print Books: <q><span lang="en">If you can't find a book, here are a few steps you can take to locate the book you are looking for...<em>BookFinder.com</em></span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[BOOK]</span> <strong> <q>Recommended Reference Books for Small and Medium-sized Libraries and Media Centers 2002</q></strong> by <strong>Wynar</strong> (May 2002) </p> <blockquote>Collecting: <q><span lang="en">When compared with the millions of books listed on such Internet rare and used book databases as ABE and <em>BookFinder.com</em>, as well as the ability of these Internet databases to give the most current market value on the same title ina variety of physical conditions, most book collectors and book dealers will prefer the more extensive and up-to-date listings of the Internet databases.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Peace Corps Writers (United States), <a href="http://www.peacecorpswriters.org/pages/2002/0201/201pchist2.html"><q>Howls From a Hungry Place, Part II: Mortiz Thomsen's The Farm on the River of Emeralds</q></a></strong> (May 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Mortiz Thomsen's, The Farm on the River of Emeralds (published originally in 1978) is no longer in print. Used copies can be found through <em>BookFinder.com</em> for prices from $15 to $38.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>BBCi (United Kingdom), <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/cumbria/news/2002/04/25/books.shtml"><q>Second-hand book bids</q></a></strong> (25 April 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Fact file: <em>BookFinder.com</em> searches through more than 40 million books!</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>VnExpress (Vietnam), <a href="http://www.vnexpress.net/Vietnam/Vi-tinh/2002/04/3B9BB6F6/"><q>Internet Update ngày 25/4</q></a></strong> (25 April 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="vi">Ban có thê dê dàng tìm kiêm moi loai sách cu, mói và hiêm trên trang <em>BookFinder.com</em>. Trang web có thê dò tìm tù hon 40,000 nguôn cung câp sách khác nhau nhu Amazon.com, dáp ung vói yêu câu cua ban. Nguòi truy câp se dánh vào tên tác gia dê tìm hieu quyên sách dang duoc bán o dâu và giá là bao ngiêu. Môt khi duoc dân toi noi có quyên sách, ho có thê mua truc tuyên.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Newsbytes News Network (United States), <a href="http://cma.zdnet.com/texis/techinfobase/techinfobase/+0mse+cxmxzmwwwSq_qo89XW96v_mzmwwwwdFqrp1xmwBnpzmwwwwiFqnhw5B/display.html"><q>Bookworms Use Web To Locate Rare Books</q></a></strong> (23 April 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Searching for books online - be they rare, used or new - is simple with a site like <em>BookFinder.com</em>. This specialty search site claims to scan the inventories of over 40,000 booksellers - 'from behemoths like Amazon.com to tiny mom-and-pop indies' - for matches to your book hunts. You can type in the book's title or an author to find out where a book is for sale, and at what price. Once linked to the book of your choice you can then buy it online direct from the bookseller. The addition of used book stores to the search is invaluable as it turns up some books that online giant's say are out of print ... and saves money as well! World Wide Web: <em>http://www.bookfinder.com</em>.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>The Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Australia), <q>Flying the Colours</q></strong> (20 April 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">A new breed of fans are those 20 and thirtysomethings keen to trace the military experiences of their ancestors. 'Unit histories' are popular, with a new one out on 75 Squadron RAAF 1942-2002...Hylands, 256 Flinders St. Hylands recommends searches for military titles be done through <em>www.BookFinder.com</em>.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>NEA Today (National Education Association) (United States), <a href="http://www.nea.org/neatoday/0204/resource.html"><q>The Ultimate Resource for Book Shoppers</q></a></strong> (1 April 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Don't give up trying to locate that hard-to-find book. A free new Web service, <em>www.BookFinder.com</em>, allows readers to comparison shop for new, used, and rare books from any of 40,000 bookstores around the world. <em>BookFinder.com</em> is recommended to book lovers by the New York Times and the Library of Congress and for folks who buy and sell books for a living. The site contains more than 30 million titles! Go to <em>www.BookFinder.com</em>.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[BOOK]</span> <strong> <q>The History Highway 3.0: A Guide to Internet Resources</q></strong> by <strong>M.E. Sharpe</strong> (1 April 2002) </p> <blockquote>History Books on the Internet: <q><span lang="en">Simultaneously searches most of the the above networks and displays the results on a single page. <em>Bookfinder</em> also searches the in-print databases at Amazon.com...and Powells.com</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[TV]</span> <strong>WBIR-News (Knoxville, TN) (United States), <a href="http://www.wbir.com/news/link_info.asp?ID=555"><q>As Seen On: Consumer Reports</q></a></strong> (April 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Book Appraisal <em>BookFinder.com</em>: <em>www.BookFinder.com</em> Get fair appraisals on books.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>SearchEngineWatch.com (United States), <a href="http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/02/sd0410-bookse.html"><q>Curling Up with a Good Book Search Engine</q></a></strong> (April 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en"><em>BookFinder.com</em> is a one-stop search site that lets you view the collections of over 40,000 sellers of new, used, rare, and out-of-print books. According to the site, the forty million titles available comprise the largest book catalog available anywhere, either online or offline. It's definitely an impressive collection.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[BOOK]</span> <strong> <q>Valuable Vintage: The Insider's Guide to Identifying and Collecting Important Vintage Fashions</q></strong> by <strong>Elizabeth Mason</strong> (April 2002) </p> <blockquote>Important Vintage Clothing, Auction, and Reference Websites: <q><span lang="en">To order his own copy of sources he'd found in the library, he would log onto <em>BookFinder.com</em>, a vast used-book database.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[BOOK]</span> <strong> <q>Godtalk: Travels in Spiritual America</q></strong> by <strong>Brad Gooch</strong> (April 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Account of thriving forms of spirituality in what is being called a 'post-denominational' age...To order his own copy of sources he'd found in the library, he would log onto <em>BookFinder.com</em>, a vast used-book database.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Everyman.org (Canada), <q>The Passions of Fatherhood</q></strong> (April 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Sadly, this book is currently out of print, though works of such quality never go out of style and relevance. The Passions of Fatherhood can easily be located through out-of-print services available through Amazon or <em>BookFinder.com</em>. It just doesn't get any better than [Sam Osherson]'s work, folks. And The Passions of Fatherhood shows him in his finest form.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>The Detroit Free Press (United States), <a href="http://www.freep.com/money/business/guide31_20020331.htm"><q>Consumer Guide: Collectible Books</q></a></strong> (31 March 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Hunting hard-to-find volumes is fun for bibliophiles, but it won't make you wealthy...Searching for Sandberg. Some recommended dealer and collector sites include <em>www.BookFinder.com</em>, a marketplace for 40,000 dealers.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Forbes (United States), <a href="http://www.forbes.com/bow/b2c/review.jhtml?id=1433"><q>Best of the Web</q></a></strong> (28 March 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Having its origin as a class project by then 19-year old UC Berkeley undergrad Anirvan Chatterjee in 1996, <em>BookFinder.com</em> now combs the sites of 40,000 booksellers--from Powell's Books to Alibris, Fatbrain and Amazon. How it works: you plug in a title or author name along with the condition you desire (new, used or out-of-print), and the search engine pulls up and links to sites the title is offered. Don't come here to browse; you won't find summaries or articles. BEST: Great for comparison shopping: search results are arranged by price.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>The Honolulu Advertiser (United States), <a href="http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2002/Mar/27/il/il14ataste.html"><q>Food For Thought</q></a></strong> (27 March 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">If you're looking for an out-of-print cookbook or food book...a Web site that searches bookstore Web sites and data bases to locate the book, is <em>BookFinder.com</em>. You can buy the book online through them or contact the seller directly.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Poynter.org (United States), <a href="http://www.poynter.org/web/032602Sree.htm"><q>Web Tips: From The Pros</q></a></strong> (26 March 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Sites that sell books online are more than just a convenience. They make excellent resources for finding information on deadline. I [Sreenath Sreenivasan, Columbia University Journalism Professor] use them to fact-check stories and to find background material on people I am interviewing...<em>BookFinder.com</em>, <span style="white-space: nowrap"><em>http://www.BookFinder.com</em>.</span> How quaint: a book site that deals only in books. <em>BookFinder.com</em> is especially good for hard-to-find books, connecting bookstores big and small. Type in a title and it tells you where it's available and what condition the books are in. Once you locate a book, you might have the option of placing a -- gasp! -- phone order.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Martha Stewart Living (CBS) (United States), <a href="http://www.marthastewart.com/page.jhtml?type=content&id=tvs7126"><q>White Gazpacho with Sarah</q></a></strong> (22 March 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Recommended Reading: The True Light Beavers 'Eat, Fast, Feast: A Tribal Cookbook by the True Light Beavers' (Doubleday, 1972; out of print). For rare or out-of-print books, visit <em>BookFinder.com</em>.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Research News (United States), <a href="http://www.virtualchase.com/tvcalert/mar02/15mar02.html"><q>Want to Read a Good Book?</q></a></strong> (15 March 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en"><em>BookFinder.com</em> lets you search for new or used books -- including first edition or signed copies -- by author or title. You can also search by binding, ISBN, keyword, or price range. While the engine warns that author or title queries produce the best results, my query for "legal thriller" generated several relevant hits, including books by Grisham, Turow, Bernhardt, Margolin, and others. Click on a matching title to find a list of its availability from online vendors. The list includes seller, book description, and price.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Town & Country (United States), <q>Connoisseur's World: Rare Art Book Dealers</q></strong> (1 March 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Looking for an out-of-print art book? Visit the Internet. Browse several sites, since books may be posted on each by different dealers, at widely differing prices. Buying procedures also differ: Bibliofind.com, ABE and Bibliology.com provide the phone numbers and e-mail addresses of booksellers who have your volume in stock, and let you take it from there. Alibris.com doesn't provide dealer contact information, but it completes the transaction for you (for a fee added to the dealer's price). <em>BookFinder.com</em> has its own listings and is an umbrella site that directs you to most of the others named here.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Internet Magazine (United Kingdom), <q>Wales Cottages: A Family Business Using the Web to Tempt You Into a Vacation in the Valleys.</q></strong> (1 March 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Richard recommends <em>BookFinder.com</em>: <em>www.bookfinder.com</em>.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[BOOK]</span> <strong> <q>Books on Demand für Esoterik und alternative Heilweisen. (Bd. 13)</q></strong> by <strong>Andreas Mäckler</strong> (March 2002) </p> <blockquote>Anhang: <q><span lang="de"><em>www.bookfinder.com</em>: Antiquarische und Neue Bücher weltweit.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[BOOK]</span> <strong> <q>Books on Demand für Ratgeber- und Sachbuchautoren. (Bd. 8)</q></strong> by <strong>Andreas Mäckler</strong> (March 2002) </p> <blockquote>Anhang: <q><span lang="de"><em>www.bookfinder.com</em>: Antiquarische und Neue Bücher weltweit.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Consumer Reports (United States), <a href="http://www.consumerreports.org/main/detailv2.jsp?CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=163577&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=163547"><q>More Bookmarks</q></a></strong> (March 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Our thanks to our readers who saw our January report on book-buying and wrote to tell us about their favorite web sites...<em>www.BookFinder.com</em>: A one-stop search site that lets you view the collections of more than 40,000 sellers of new, used, rare, and out-of-print books.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>College & Research Libraries News (United States), <q>New Ways to Acquire Old Books; Adding Out-of-Print Titles to the Library's Collection</q></strong> (March 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Among the Web sites for out-of-print books, some of the largest and best known are 21 North Main Street, Alibris/Bibliocity, Advanced Book Exchange, Bibliofind, and <em>BookFinder.com</em>...<em>BookFinder.com</em> (<em>www.bookfinder.com</em>). Cooperates online with more than 15,000 booksellers across the United States to give potential buyers access to more than 20 million used, rare, and out-of-print titles. <em>Bookfinder</em> can be particularly helpful because it also searches some of the other out-of-print search sites, such as Advanced Book Exchange and Bibliofind.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Reflections (University Lowbrow Astronomers) (United States), <a href="http://www.umich.edu/~lowbrows/reflections/2002/hjuday.6.html"><q>Booking on the Internet</q></a></strong> (March 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">My personal favorite place to start is with <em>BookFinder.com</em>: <em>www.bookfinder.com</em>. This site searches other sites worldwide. It will not give you every book available at every site, but does give links to all sites with books. As typical to most book search sites, you can search by author, title, both type (new, used).</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Forbes (United States), <q>Best of the Web: Rare Books</q></strong> (March 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Some say the Web tolls a death knell for books. But why skim a virtual Adventures of Huckleberry Finn when you could be reading Twain's classic between the burnished leather boards of an 1884 quarto first edition with gilt imprints and light foxing? The Web is a giant flea market connecting buyers to sellers...<em>BookFinder.com</em> is simply a quick bot. You cannot browse through subjects looking for a title. Searching the <em>BookFinder.com</em> yields hits from more than 40,000 booksellers, and will link you directly to the item page at other sites like ABE, Alibris, and <em>JustBooks</em>. BEST: Price comparisons are quick and efficient due to the eclectic mix of other booksellers and portals.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>PC Magazine (United States), <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,s%253D25087%2526a%253D22100,00.asp"><q>Top 100 [undiscovered] Web Sites</q></a></strong> (26 February 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Odds are you already know who does what best on the Web--Amazon for shopping, PC Magazine for computing, etc. But there's also an abundance of really great sites that you're probably missing. That's why this year we put together a list of 100 terrific, underappreciated sites, ranging from silly to practical ... Shopping: Desperate to find a copy of J.D. Salinger's Hapworth 16, 1924? Chances are you'll find it with <em>BookFinder.com</em>. (We did.) The site searches for books from more than 40,000 bookseller sites, so you can track down used and new copies of everything from best sellers to rarities such as signed copies of Joyce's Ulysses.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[BOOK]</span> <strong> <q>Secular Wholeness: A Skeptic's Paths to a Richer Life</q></strong> by <strong>David E Cortesi</strong> (26 February 2002) </p> <blockquote>Internet Resources: <q><span lang="en">There are several used-book search engines, but <em>BookFinder.com</em> is a meta-search engine that interrogates several others: <em>http://www.bookfinder.com/</em></span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>The Daily Post (Liverpool) (United Kingdom), <q>Happy Ending to the 50-Year Saga of Search for Rare Book</q></strong> (25 February 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">How to find that elusive book -- tracing that elusive book has never been easier thanks to the dawn of the internet. A number of websites have been created dedicated to helping people search for that long-cherished edition. Perhaps the best known is the amazon.com website which has established itself as one of the biggest on-line book stores. The site also offers a second hand book service with links to dealers, mainly in America, with prices and details of the condition of books. A similar service is available on the dedicated <em>BookFinder.com</em>.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Liverpool Echo (England) (United Kingdom), <q>Tapping Into Tops and Handy Hints</q></strong> (25 February 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">One thing Tipking can't help you do is find rare books - but <em>BookFinder.com</em> (<span style="white-space: nowrap"><em>http://www.bookfinder.com</em>)</span> can. This is a site I first discovered 12 months ago or more and found to be a bit limited, but since then it has developed a great deal. It has now become probably the most useful site on the web for finding rare and out-of-print books and performed particularly well when I tested it by looking for some old favourites from my schooldays. You use it just as if you were searching on a regular retail site like Amazon. The list of matches, with prices, is linked to individual booksellers. Most are in the US, but there are now plenty of UK ones as well and it is then a simple matter to e-mail the seller directly for more details of how to buy the book. If it's a shop offering online sales, you'll be able to order it there and then.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[TV]</span> <strong>CNN (United States), <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0202/10/sm.09.html"><q>CNN Sunday Morning</q></a></strong> (10 February 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">All right folks, take out a pen and paper or your Palm Pilot or something and follow along as we browse. First of all the first place to go of course as Lance would tell us and certainly his bosses would confirm that, is PC Magazine's site -- PCMag.com where you'll find this list of a hundred sites -- actually two hundred -- a hundred obscure, a hundred not so obscure. Then you can go into these various places, for example, <em>www.BookFinder.com</em>. So you could get used books on Amazon, but this is a little more obscure. I believe what it does is it links bookstores all across the country which is kind of cool because it keeps independent bookstores going. I plugged in one of my favorite books, I'm a space guy -- Valentine Lebedev -- Diary of a Cosmonaut, very obscure title and I found it in six places around the country. Pretty cool?</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Watertown Daily Times (NY) (United States), <q>Not All Old Books Are Valuable, Not All Valuable Books Are Old</q></strong> (9 February 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Whereas one used to have to search the stock of used-book dealers or leave a want list if looking for an out of print book, now all one has to do is click on one of several Web sites...<em>BookFinder.com</em>.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Acme Bookbinding (United States), <a href="http://www.acmebook.com/2002/02/07"><q>Looking for a book?</q></a></strong> (7 February 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en"><em>BookFinder.com</em> connects readers to over 40,000 booksellers from around the world with an open marketplace for all their online book shopping needs. <em>BookFinder.com</em>, the open marketplace for books online is produced by 13th Generation Media, of Berkeley, California. The company was founded by a couple of recent University of California grads with a taste for grassroots-driven ecommerce, and afflicted with severe cases of bibliophilia. <em>BookFinder.com</em>'s goal is to provide fellow readers unbiased real-time information about books available online.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>USA Today (United States), <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/cwinfo-new.htm"><q>Informative Sites</q></a></strong> (6 February 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">[Selected alongside Google Translation and Dictionary Search] Rare <em>Book Finder</em>: <em>BookFinder.com</em> boasts connections to 30,000 independent sellers of new, used, rare and out-of-print books.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Around Maine (United States), <a href="http://www.maine.rr.com/Around_Town/features/siteoftheday/ArchivedLinks/february2002sodarchive.asp"><q>Site of the Day</q></a></strong> (5 February 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">This site connects its visitors to more than 40,000 booksellers from around the world, creating a fabulous open marketplace for all your online book shopping needs: <em>http://www.bookfinder.com/</em></span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>The Weekly Telegraph (United Kingdom), <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&targetRule=5&xml=%2Fglobal%2F2002%2F04%2F02%2Fbooks.xml"><q>Book buying for big kids: James Delingpole checks out the best book sites for children of all ages</q></a></strong> (4 February 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Others you should try are <em>www.BookFinder.com</em>...If you've never used one of these book-finding sites before, it's very simple. You just type the author's name and title into the relevant fields and you'll be given a list of available copies all over the world, with details of the condition they're in and a contact email for the dealer.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Internet Magazine (United Kingdom), <a href="http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m0CXD/2002_Feb/83116809/p1/article.jhtml"><q>Wimbledon Chase Under 11s: The Crazy Gang: The Kindergarten Years</q></a></strong> (February 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Kirk Peterson runs this site for his son's football team, the Wimbledon Chase Under 11s. We're impressed with the simple and functional design...Kirk recomemends: <em>BookFinder.com</em>, <em>www.bookfinder.com</em>.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Bookdealer (United States), <a href="http://www.ibooknet.co.uk/archive/misc/bookdealer.htm#Standards"><q>Standards on the Internet - Virtual Reality?</q></a></strong> (17 January 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">The more general <em>BookFinder</em> Insider list was set up alongside the <em>Bookfinder.com</em> site as a discussion forum. It's not tied to any particular database and is free from editorial restriction - providing discussion relates to books and selling them. An Unwinder sister list was set up for all digressions. There is a similar approach on the Bibliophile list at bibliophilegroup.com whose origins are now lost in internet bookselling history.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>St. Petersburg Times (United States), <a href="http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/index.html?ts=1017086341"><q>Web Site of the Day</q></a></strong> (16 January 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Web Site of the Day: <em>www.BookFinder.com</em> connects to 30,000 booksellers to find new, used, rare and out of print books.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Martha Stewart Living (CBS) (United States), <a href="http://www.marthastewart.com/page.jhtml?type=content&id=channel1366"><q>Dishwashing 101</q></a></strong> (10 January 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Recommended Reading: Phyllis Krasilovsky Barbara Cooney (Illustrator) 'The Man Who Didn't Wash His Dishes' (Doubleday, 1950); out of print. For rare or out-of-print books, visit <em>www.BookFinder.com</em>.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>USA Today (United States), <a href="http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/main/doc/000000097930199.html?MAC=de8a4d1e11893fec78e8988d7832ce04&QIID=000000097930199&FMT=FT"><q>Dylan, MLK Jr., Dubya; Haiku, Too, is Among the Year's Top Sites</q></a></strong> (3 January 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">This week, a selection of our picks for 2001's top Hot Sites: The arts...Resources: Don't give up trying to locate that hard-to-find book, says <em>BookFinder.com</em>, which boasts connections to 30,000 independent sellers of new, used, rare and out-of-print books. More than 30 million titles.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>The Washington Post (United States), <q>Turn Up the Volume Control</q></strong> (3 January 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Get on the Internet for an idea of the relative, unprejudiced value of the books and then bring them to a local auction house or bookseller and keep your fingers crossed -- remembering that the going rate for most popular titles or subjects (even in good condition) is rarely more than 10 percent to 15 percent of the cover price. Both www.abebooks.com and <em>www.BookFinder.com</em> are good pricing sources.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[BOOK]</span> <strong> <q>Do You Really Want to Self-Publish Your Book?</q></strong> by <strong>H. L. Nigro</strong> (3 January 2002) </p> <blockquote>Submitting Directly to Traditional and Online Retailers: <q><span lang="en">Books listed with Amazon.com may also get exposure by being picked up by any number of "book locator" sites, such as <em>BookFinder.com</em>...Once listed with Half.com, your title will also come up in the searches at <em>BookFinder.com</em>.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[BOOK]</span> <strong> <q>The U.S. History Highway: A Guide to Internet Resources</q></strong> by <strong>M.E. Sharpe</strong> (1 January 2002) </p> <blockquote>History Books on the Internet: <q><span lang="en">Simultaneously searches most of the the above networks and displays the results on a single page. <em>Bookfinder</em> also searches the in-print databases at Amazon.com...and Powells.com</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[TV]</span> <strong>CNET-TV (United States), <a href="http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/kc1/technology/stories/technology-114115120011228-131250.html"><q>CNET-News Shows Us A Much Smaller Site That May Help You Find Books Amazon May Never See</q></a></strong> (January 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">If you are looking for a best-seller, it's never that hard. But looking for a rare or out-of-print book, usually involves a lot of legwork. Going out to the book stores, library, but not anymore. As with many other things, the search can now take just seconds online. Amazon is just one book seller of more than 40,000 that a little site called <em>BookFinder.com</em> scours through. They search through book stores and online sellers all over the world, more than 40 million books to help you find that new or used book or simply compare prices and get the best deal.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Peace Corps Writers (United States), <a href="http://www.peacecorpswriters.org/pages/2002/0201/201wrwr.html"><q>Rembering Paul Bowles</q></a></strong> (January 2002) </p> <blockquote><q><span lang="en">Remembering Paul Bowles by David Espey (Morocco 1962-64). Go to <em>BookFinder.com</em> for copies.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[BOOK]</span> <strong> <q>Surviving Manic Depression: A Manual on Bipolar Disorder for Patients, Families, and Providers</q></strong> by <strong>E. Fuller Torrey & Michael B. Knable</strong> (January 2002) </p> <blockquote>Review of Books: <q><span lang="en">Surviving Manic Depression is the most authoritative book on this disorder, which affects more than two million people in the U.S. alone. Based on the latest research, it provides detailed coverage of every aspect of manic depression--from understanding its causes and treatments to choosing doctors and managing relapses--with guidance drawn from the latest scientific information...Many of these books are in print, and those that are not can often be purchased over the Internet (<em>www.BookFinder.com</em>).</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[BOOK]</span> <strong> <q>Writer's Market FAQ's: Fast answers about getting published and the business of writing</q></strong> by <strong>Peter Ruble</strong> (January 2002) </p> <blockquote>Book Buyers and Sellers: <q><span lang="en"><em>BookFinder.com</em> lets you search for out-of-print and used books.</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[BOOK]</span> <strong> <q>The Hope Chest: A Legacy of Love</q></strong> by <strong>Rebekah Wilson</strong> (2002) </p> <blockquote>Internet Used Book Sites: <q><span lang="en">Find OOP books...<em>BookFinder.com</em> (<span style="white-space: nowrap"><em>http://www.bookfinder.com/</em></span>)</span></q> </blockquote> <p> <span class="media-mentions-type-label">[BOOK]</span> <strong> <q>La rivoluzione incompiuta. 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