Associations & Other Industry Organizations
Books on Books
Bestseller Lists & Related News
Featured Libraries
Industry Periodicals
Writer's Reference
Miscellaneous

• American Booksellers Association (ABA)
  Trade association representing independent bookstores nationwide. Publish the popular Book Sense bestseller lists.
• American Library Association (ALA)
  Leads the development of library and information services to enhance learning and ensure access to information for all. Lots of great information including a section on banned books.
• Association of American Publishers (AAP)
  Principal trade association of the book publishing industry.
• Book Binders' Guild of New York
  Organization for professionals from all aspects of graphic arts: book publishers, manufacturers, and suppliers. Provide related information, advice, and contacts.
• Children's Book Council (CBC)
  Trade organization of U.S. publishers and packagers encouraging literacy and the use and enjoyment of children's books.
• International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY)
  Promote international understanding through children's books, access to books to children everywhere, and the publication and distribution of children's books especially within developing countries.
• International Publisher's Association
  Defend publisher rights to publish and distribute. Promote and protect copyright principles. Work to overcome illiteracy. Consult for the United Nations.
• International Reading Association (IRA)
  Promote literacy. Improve the quality of reading instruction. Disseminate research and information about reading.

• The House of Harper: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Publishing, Eugene Exman, Harper & Row, New York, 1967.
• The Brothers Harper: A Unique Publishing Partnership and It's Impact Upon the Cultural Life of America from 1817 to 1853, Eugene Exman, Harper & Row, New York, 1965.
• The House of Harper: A Century of Publishing in Franklin Square, J. Henry Harper 1912, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York and London
• A History of Book Publishing in the United States, Volume 1—The Creation of an Industry 1630-1865; Volume 2—The Expansion of an Industry 1865-1919; Volume 3—; Volume4—The Great Change 1940-1980 John Tebbel, 1972
• Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom, Collected and Edited by Leonard S. Marcus, HarperCollins Publishers, 1998.
• The Harper Centennial 1817-1967 A Few of the Greetings and Congratulations, Harper & Bothers Publishers, New York and London, 1967.
• Index to the archives of Harper and Brothers 1817-1914, Compiled by Christopher Feeney Chadwyck-Healey Ltd., Cambridge and Teaneck 1982.
• Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by The Moon, Leonard S. Marcus, Quill 1999.
• Patience & Fortitude: A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and Book Culture, Nicholas A. Basbanes, HarperCollins Publishers, 2001.
• Splendor of Letters, A: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World, Nicholas A. Basbanes, HarperCollins Publishers, 2003.

• CNN.com Books
  Book news, author interviews, first chapters, reviews, bestseller lists, and games.
• New York Times Books
  Reviews, bestseller lists, first chapters, and columns.
• Publishers Weekly Bestsellers
  
• USA Today Books
  Book club, first chapters, bestseller lists, and spoken word.

• The Library of Congress
  Sustains and preserves a universal collection of knowledge and creativity and makes its resources available to the Congress and American public.
• The New York Public Library
  

• Book Publishing Report
  Weekly insight and analysis into the world of book publishing.
• Criticas
  English-language reviews of new adult and children's titles from the international Spanish-language publishing world. Criticas also covers Spanish-language publishing news as it pertains to U.S. readers, librarians, and booksellers.
• Library Journal
  Oldest independent national library publication. Combines news, features, commentary, etc. Evaluative reviews written by librarians help readers make their purchasing decisions: reviews on books, audio and video, CD-ROMs, websites, and magazines. Each issue reviews 250 to 350 adult books, mostly prior to publication, making it a source librarians and publishers turn to for early evaluations.
• PublishersLunch
  Popular daily report gathering stories from all over the web and print for the professional trade book community, including original reporting and commentary.
• Publisher's Weekly (PW)
  Reaches major publishers worldwide, as well as bookstores, libraries, media and literary agents, and movie and studio executives. Includes weekly reviews of forthcoming books, news, industry data, including bestsellers by multiple categories, and book industry statistics.
• School Library Journal
  Serves librarians who work with young people in school and public libraries, providing information needed to manage libraries, from creating high-quality collections to understanding how technology can assist (or hinder) learning.

• Absolute Shakespeare
  Resource for William Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, poems, quotes, biography and the legendary Globe Theatre.
• Bartleby.com
  Named after our own Herman Melville's character "Bartleby, the Scrivener." The most comprehensive website, providing students and other researchers with free access to books, verse, and reference publications.
• Yale University Press Quotations Sites
  Recommended list of quotation websites.
• Plumb Design's Visual Thesaurus
  View special maps showing interrelationships between words and meanings, often obscured by conventional methods of navigation and information display. Accesses data from the public WordNet reference system developed at Princeton University.
• YourDictionary.com
  Comprehensive portal for language, with more than 1800 dictionaries and more than 250 languages, as well as glossaries, thesauri, and other vocabulary aids.

• Book Industry Study Group
  Provide research and data on issues affecting the book industry as a whole and develop and maintain standards for effective communication among all segments of the publishing industry supply chain.
• BookJobs.com

Bookjobs.com was created to aid in the recruiting of the best and the brightest college graduates around the country-graduates from all ethnic and social backgrounds and all areas of study. The site serves two purposes: to provide a centralized place for job seekers to research available positions throughout the publishing industry, and to provide basic information about the book publishing industry as a whole—commonly used words and terms in the industry, department descriptions, companies, events, and other information.
• BookWire
  Portal providing industry news, access to literary journals and reviews, a directory of book sites, searchable bestseller lists, listings of literary events and awards, transcripts of author interviews, etc.
• BookZonePro
  Tips and tools for publishing professionals, including profiles on industry professionals, database of book reviewers, comprehensive calendar of industry events, and more.
• History Channel's - This Day in Literary History
• Literary Market Place
  Directory of American and Canadian book publishing, including more than 30,000 publishers, literary agents, distributors, printers, paper suppliers, reference books and magazines, literary associations, societies and awards .
• Publishing Central
  Book publishing portal.