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Extraordinary Canadian site linking network of 10,000 booksellers of rare, secondhand and out-of-print books internationally. English, French and German sites give access to over 40 million titles. Booksellers pay subscription based on number of titles for the online capability of selling their books anywhere in the world. www.abebooks.com

Canada

Canada

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Rather cheeky but entertaining author's site which carries authors' interviews and a tongue-in-cheek list of what those agents' rejection letters really mean. http://www.andreasemple.com


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Useful submission guidelines for romance writers on the publisher's corporate site. www.HarperCollins.com

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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A free biweekly interactive newsletter on book marketing is offered by Francine Silverman, the author of Book Marketing from A -Z. The site has a vast number of testimonials and offers helpful tips to anyone trying to sell their own book. www.bookpromotionnewsletter.com

Canada

Canada

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New website which aims, endearingly,'to provide virtual shelf space for all the less well known writers and independent, small publishers of the world'. Charges £20 ($37) per title per year. Rather whimsical in approach but worth watching. http://booksonshelves.com/home.htm

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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Just starting out and currently with little material on it, this site is dedicated to providing a free service to help small press publishers and self-publishers to promote and sell their books online and internationally. www.booktaste.com


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An online shop selling brand name stationery and art supplies with big discounts on high street prices


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The P4 Personality Mapping tool claims to provide you with a new and unique method of assessing people's personality types so you can better understand and communicate with them — whether colleagues, family or friends. For fiction writers it offers you a new way of creating realistic characters to fulfill specific plot roles. Not for everyone, but an interesting idea: http://www.synergise.com/p4/


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Barry Pearson, credited writer on 8 feature films and many TV scripts, offers free resources, including over 100 articles, seminars, assessment services and his e-book, It's all about the Story. www.createyourscreenplay.com


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Online publisher and bookstore featuring wide range of e-books published on site for sale for range of reader devices. http://cyberread.com/mobishop


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Online fee-paying publishing site which offers opportunity to put your work on the Internet at a price you choose. You then pay a handling charge on sales from the site. www.diypublishing.com


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Rather unusual American publisher's site which has made a real success at selling its low-priced books online, with 2 million visitors in its first year. http://www.store.doverpublications.com

United States

United States

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E-publishing site set up by American literary agent to publish and sell e-books, with a focus on genre fiction. www.e-reads.com

United States

United States

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Digital bookstore selling wide range of ebooks in 50 categories from Hildegard of Bingen to How to Write a Dirty Story and showing how the range of ebooks available is growing. http://www.ebooks.com/


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New name for Library Association Publishing, this offers a range of books for the information technology market, including an annual directory called Libraries and Information Services in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland with 3,000 libraries. www.facetpublishing.co.uk

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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Online bookshop focusing on category fiction - everything from SF to fantasy, horror to thrillers and crime to romance. With biographies of 15,000 authors and 250,000 books, it's a fantastic resource. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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Crisp and well-presented site from new UK romance publisher which brings a breath of fresh air to romance writing. Information for writers and sales site. www.heartlinebooks.com

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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Crisply presented website for UK commercial organisation which offers a training course and tips about copywriting. http://www.inst.org/copy/

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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Well-respected bookshop in Sutton, Surrey, UK which specialises in children's titles across the board and teachers' resource books. www.kendrakebooks.co.uk

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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Short-run book printer operating in the US. www.kingprinting.com which also has self-publishing site, www.adibooks.com with online quote facility.

United States

United States

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Handy site which provides links to 7,500 US publishers' sites and online catalogues. www.lights.com/publisher/

United States

United States

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Ghostwriter service provided by smart professional firm operating out of New York City. As well as ghostwriting, there are a number of useful articles on working with a ghostwriter. www.pegr.com

United States

United States

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Ambitious brand-new online bookselling site, set up by the Poetry Book SocietySpecialist book club founded by T S Eliot in 1953, which aims to offer the best new poetry published in the UK and Ireland. Members buy at 25% discount. The PBS has a handsome new website at  www.poetrybooks.co.uk, which offers 90,000 poetry titles available in the UK and continuously updated news, articles, poetry events, updates and information about poetry. www.poetrybookshoponline.com

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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Science fiction and fantasy site offering news and interviews from the more popular end of the spectrum. http://www.scifi.com/sfw

United States

United States

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Online bookshop which works likes an airport or train station bookshop, encouraging impulse purchases from their 4-book bookshelves. For an annual fee it offers self-publishers guaranteed exposure of their book for a year as part of a random display in which their book is placed on the shelf with a bestseller.. www.synergise.com/books


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New website offering paid-for downloads of short stories by classic authors, plus the chance to submit your own work to go on the site. Worth persisting through the rather annoying Flash intro. http://www.shortalk.co.uk

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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Extraordinarily complete listing of all new books published in the UK in the genres of crime, mystery, horror and fantasy, together with descriptions of the books, author profiles and lists of titles.

A joy for any fan.

http://www.twbooks.co.uk

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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High quality subscription-only UK-based international book service which carries a wide range of recommended and reviewed titles.  www.thegoodbookguide.com

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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Ebook sold online providing access to nearly 1500 paying US markets for $10 (around £5). It only lists those which pay a minimum of ten cents (5p) a word, five cents (2.5p) for Fiction. www.writersmarketguide.com

United States

United States

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Affiliated with the newsletter Children’s Book Insider, this US site offers tips for beginners to children’s writing at http://www.write4kids.com

United States

United States