AbeBooks

AbeBooks (formerly the Advanced Book Exchange) is an online marketplace for books. Most books listed are used books, many are rare or out-of-print, and a growing number are new books. The company is based in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, with offices in Düsseldorf, Germany, and the US. It was incorporated in 1995 and launched its websites in 1996. At present, they list more than 100 million books on sale from 12880 booksellers in 57 countries. AbeBooks offers six regional websites: for North America, France, Germany, Italy, the UK and Spain (Iberlibro.com).

Alibris

Alibris is an online store that sells new books, used books, out-of-print books, rare books, and other media through an online network of independent booksellers.

Booksellers list their inventories on Alibris which in turn offers the books on its retail website, a separate library services site, and business to business partners such as Barnes & Noble, Borders Books, Books-A-Million, and Chapters Indigo. It offers more than 70 million books from a network of over 10,000 booksellers in 65 countries.

Most sales made through Alibris are fulfilled by the bookseller directly to the end customer. Sales to libraries or other institutions or books needing transoceanic shipping are consolidated in a distribution center in Sparks, Nevada. Alibris also has a similar network for music (albums, cassette tapes, and CDs) and movies (VHS or DVD).

Audible.com

Audible.com is an Internet provider of spoken audio entertainment, information, and educational programming. Audible sells audiobooks, radio and TV programs, and audio versions of magazines and newspapers. On January 31, 2008 Amazon.com announced it would buy Audible for about $300M. The deal closed in March of 2008 and Audible is now a subsidiary of Amazon. The company enjoys a near-monopoly in the online digital download market for audiobooks.

Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble, Inc. is the largest book retailer in the United States, operating mainly through its Barnes & Noble Booksellers chain of bookstores headquartered in lower Fifth Avenue in Lower Manhattan, New York City.

The company is known for large, upscale retail outlets, many of which contain a café serving Starbucks Coffee, and for competitive discounting of bestsellers. Most stores also sell magazines, newspapers, DVDs, graphic novels, gifts, games, and music. Video games and related items were sold in the company's GameStop retail outlets until October 2004, when the division was spun-off into an independent company.

As of October 2009, the company operates 777 stores in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia in addition to 636 college bookstores, which serves nearly 4 million students and 250,000 faculty members across the country.

Biblio.com

Biblio.com is an online marketplace for booksellers specializing in rare and out-of-print titles. Biblio, headquartered in Asheville, North Carolina, started as a metasearch engine in 2000, where potential book buyers could initiate a web search in one place that would return results from a variety of major booksellers. In early 2003, the company shifted focus to concentrate on providing a consolidated search service and e-commerce tools for mostly independent bookstores and booksellers. Later that year it became involved with a community library building project in rural Bolivia, which eventually led to the establishment in 2005 of Biblioworks.org, a non-profit organization that seeks to foster similar community library projects and promote literacy in "communities in need" through the donation of books, supplies, and funding.

Booksfree

Booksfree is an online book rental company, the first to offer flat rate rental-by-mail to customers in the United States. Established in 2000 and headquartered in Vienna, Virginia, it boasts an inventory of over 100,000 titles and more than 13,000 subscribers. On June 8, 2007 the company announced that it had delivered its millionth book.

John Wiley & Sons

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., also referred to as Wiley, (NYSE: JWA) is a global publishing company that specializes in academic publishing and markets its products to professionals and consumers, students and instructors in higher education, and researchers and practitioners in scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly fields. The company produces books, journals, and encyclopedias, in print and electronically, as well as online products and services, training materials, and educational materials for undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education students.

Powell's Books

Powell's Books is a chain of bookstores in the Portland metropolitan area. Powell's headquarters, dubbed Powell's City of Books, claims to be the largest independent new and used bookstore in the world. Powell's City of Books is located in the Pearl District on the edge of downtown, and occupies a full city block, between NW 10th and 11th Avenues and between W Burnside and NW Couch Streets. It contains over 68,000 ft² (6,300 m² or about 1.6 acres) of retail floor space.

Scholastic Corporation

Scholastic (or Scholastic Inc.) is an North American book publishing company known for publishing educational materials for schools, teachers, and parents, and selling and distributing them by mail order and via book clubs and book fairs. It also has the exclusive United States' publishing rights to the Harry Potter book series. Scholastic Inc. is the world's largest publisher of children's books.

Simply Audiobooks

Simply Audiobooks is a privately-held e-commerce company that offers audio books for rent, download and sale. Their primary product line is a subscription-based rent-by-mail model for books on CD, similar to Netflix's model for DVDs. Although a Canadian company, the majority of Simply Audiobooks's customers reside in the United States. Head office is located in Oakville, Ontario.