November 22, 2009
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In the Shadow of the Giants

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September/October 1997
Suzanne Mantell Utne Reader 
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INDEPENDENTS ONLINE A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books
www.bookstore.com
Inventory search option, staff favorites, guest reviews, and featured sections on travel guides and romance titles.

RELATED CONTENT


Booksmith
www.booksmith.com
Strong niche areas are fiction, backlist fiction, cookbooks, science fiction, mystery, cyberpunk, poetry, film, children's books. Also signed books.


Cody's
www.codysbooks.com
Large selection of academic and technical books. Searchable database of 140,000 titles.


Davis-Kidd
www.daviskidd.com
Large general bookstore. Site includes calendar of events, book reviews, interviews, bestseller lists.


Hawley-Cooke
www.hawley-cooke.com
100,000 book titles, 20,000 music titles, 2,000 multimedia titles.


Kepler's
www.keplers.com
Literary fiction, children's books including some in Spanish, magazines and newspapers from home and abroad, computer books. Also staff recommendations, book reviews, and an events calendar.


Liberties Fine Books, Music & Cafe
www.liberties.com
One-million-title searchable database. Signed copies, e-mail notification service.


Midnight Special
www2.msbooks.com/msbooks/
Cultural, social, and political books.


Powell's
www.powells.com
One million new and used books in all subject areas. Out-of-print title searches.


Tattered Cover
www.tattered cover.com
Large, iconic, all-purpose bookstore. Site covers services and events as well.


Wellington's
www.wellingtons.com
Specializes in Southern writers and children's literature.


Also see:

BookWire
www.bookwire.com
Very useful index to general booksellers.


American Booksellers Association
www.bookweb.org
Members' home page has links to stores with online services.


Northern California Independent Booksellers Association
www.nciba.com
Lists 48 member operations including those with online book sites connected to real stores.

Suzanne Mantell, a contributing editor of Publishers Weekly, has been an editor at the New York Observer, and Harper's.

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