I want to find information about a book, such as publisher, year, price.

Books In Print
Books in Print provides access to over 3 million records for books, audiobooks, and videotapes. It includes references to 3 million in-print and forthcoming books, as well as more than 500,000 out-of-print titles; there are more than 300,000 full-text book reviews from 15 leading sources, 200,000 videos and 75,000 audiobooks with full publisher/producer information. Books in Print also includes information on over 150,000 book publishers, distributors and wholesalers. (Licensed for use at Dartmouth/DHMC only.)

Amazon.com
Amazon.com's database is one of the largest book catalogs around. In addition to being a source for buying books (plus videos, CDs, and just about anything else), Amazon.com can be used to identify books and find bibliographic information. It also provides reviews.

WorldCat
WorldCat (the OCLC Union Catalog) includes over 40 million records representing 400 languages. The database includes books, periodicals, magazines, newspapers, maps, computer data files, manuscripts, sound recordings and any other type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. The database includes records for material from the 11th century to date. New records are added daily.

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