University of Washington (Geography)

Publishers & Bookstores

(http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/resources/publishers.html)

Quick Index: Donate Books || Online Publishers || BookstoresOnline || Online 2nd-Hand Bookstores || Literature

Publishers:

• The Association of American Publishers (AAP), with some 200 members located throughout the United States, is the principal trade association of the book publishing industry.
  • List of members
• Association of American University Presses (On-line Catalog)
• Verlage und Buchhandlungen

• Academic Press
• Birkhauser Boston [Scientific & Technical Publishing]
• Blackwell's Bookshops
• Brookings Institution Press
• Cambridge University Press
• Dushkin [McGraw-Hill]
• Earthscan Publications (environmental publisher, U.K.)
• Elsevier (Holland) || Elsevier (U.S.)
• Edward Elgar Publishing Inc
• Harcourt, Brace & Co.
• Harvard Business School Publications
• Island Press (Center for Resource Economics) Covelo, California 95428. [Eco-Systems, Community Issues, Global Change, Economics]
• MIT Press
• Mohr Siebeck, Tuebingen (Germany)
• National Bureau of Economic Research
• OECD Paris || OECD Washington
  • OECD Transportation & Industries Publications
• Oxford University Press
  • Geography Books
• Penguin USA Geography
• Prentice Hall
  • Prentice Hall's Learning on the Internet Partnership '98 || Business Learning Environment - Faculty Form PHLIP is a content-rich, multi-disciplinary business education Web site created by professors for professors and their students. With PHLIP, faculty and student support moves into the information age.
  • Simon & Schuster Distributed Learning
• Random House
• Routledge
• Sage - Geography
• Thompson Publishing Group
• University of Chicago Press
• University of Michigan Press
• Westview Press Boulder, Co. [Harper Collins]
• Wiley (UK) || U.S. Mirror Site
• World Bank Publications

• Bookstore Directories [American Booksellers Association]
• Bookstores (Seattle & Online)
• GeoPlace Bookstore/ Warehouse
• University of Washington Bookstore

• Varsitybooks.com [Online Textbook Store]

• Amazon Bookstore [Welcome to Amazon.com Books!]
  • ZDNet: Inter@ctive Week: Amazon Supplies Manugistics With A Win June 7, 2000 [Story about how Amazon is helping Manugistics compete with i2 technologies]
  • Amazon, Manugistics Make Deal May 24, 2000 Rob Garretson, Washington Post Staff Writer

    ROCKVILLE, Md. - Amazon.com is buying more than $1 million worth of software from Rockville-based Manugistics Group Inc., in the hope of gaining operating efficiencies that will help the Internet retail giant turn a profit.

  • Not all smiles inside Amazon.com ; Seattle Times, November 25, 1999 by Mark Leibovich The Washington Post

    "The attention paid to 28-year-old tech tycoons has created the illusion that they're ubiquitous," said David Smith, the director of policy for the AFL-CIO. A much larger chunk of the labor force is composed of front-line "service" positions, such as cashiers and call-center employees, one of the fastest-growing job categories in the country. Service jobs in technology industries jumped 47 percent during the last five years, according to the congressional Joint Economic Committee, more than double the growth in total service-sector jobs.

  • Hope, fear mix as Beacon Hill awaits arrival of Amazon.com Seattle Times, , March 29, 1999 by Susan Byrnes

    In about a month, Amazon.com, one of the world's richest and most well-known Internet companies, will move hundreds of employees into the historic Pacific Medical Center tower, bringing the high-tech frontier to the doorstep of a sleepy hill where houses are passed down through generations and change is measured in decades.

  • Amazon.com to link with online vendors to form retail hub; Seattle Times, Monday, December 7, 1998, by Helen Jung

    Amazon.com plans to connect its popular online book and music retailing site with other Internet vendors to build its site into an online retail hub. The Seattle-based company, which sells books, compact discs and videos, will feature links to retailers offering products that it doesn't offer,...

  • AMAZON.COM: THE WILD WORLD OF E-COMMERCE Business Week, Dec. 14, 1998 (Cover)
  • Amazon.com's founder nears $1 billion ; Seattle Times, Tuesday, April 21, 1998; by Thomas W. Haines Amazon.com, the Internet bookseller, has yet to turn a profit, but that hasn't stopped its stock from climbing to the point where its founder is about to become Seattle's next billionaire.
  • Amazon.com buys Net companies despite another quarterly loss; Seattle Times, Tuesday, April 28, 1998; by Thomas W. Haines Yesterday, at the same time the Seattle-based Internet bookseller reported it has lost money for yet another quarter, it announced it has purchased three other Internet companies for a total $55 million. And, effective May 20, Amazon.com stock, a volatile Internet play in recent months, will split 2-for-1. Amazon.com purchased the three Internet companies - Bookpages Unlimited, Telebook and Internet Movie Database - to help expand its business.

• Barnes & Noble On-Line
  • Bertelsmann makes online bookseller deal ; Seattle Times, Wednesday, October 7, 1998; by The Associated Press NEW YORK - The owner of the largest U.S. publisher will buy a 50 percent stake in Barnes & Noble's online venture, barnesandnoble.com, creating a giant bookselling powerhouse on the Internet. German media conglomerate Bertelsmann, which owns Random House, will pay $200 million for its stake in barnesandnoble.com. Bertlesmann and Barnes and Noble will contribute $100 million to support the joint venture, the companies said in a joint announcement yesterday.

  • Bertelsmann Goes Online With A Spirit Of Independence ZD Net, dec.3, 1998, By Kevin Jones - Inter@ctive Week Bertelsmann AG's $200 million investment in Barnes & Noble.com Inc. has grabbed headlines, but the combination of online businesses the German publisher is putting together in Europe could prove more significant to the Internet economy...

• Borders Ann Arbor, Mich. [Clickable Map of Stores]

  "Borders began in 1971, when Tom and Louis Borders opened a "serious" book shop in the heart of Ann Arbor, Michigan... As it grew, the first Borders store became known as one of the finest book shops in the world -- a place where customers could always rely on a friendly, well-informed staff to find exactly what they were looking for... The Ann Arbor store was so successful that the Borders brothers decided to open more stores. Venturing into new territory, they targeted suburban markets, where demand for "serious" book stores was untested. The concept worked..."

• books.thepricesearch.com

• Elliott Bay Book Co. (Seattle)
  • A lethal chain-reaction by struggling independent bookstores; Seattle Times, January 28, 1999, by Ferdinand M. de Leon ... that have succumbed to competition from superchain stores like Barnes & Noble and Borders, and, most recently, that current Wall Street darling, Amazon.com. Even Elliott Bay Book Co., Seattle's largest independent and arguably the center of the city's literary life, hasn't been immune from the eroding sales and rumors of impending closure.
• Essential Media [A discount catalog and guide to the best of alternative and underground culture: BOOKS, CDS, COMICS...]
• German Books On-Line (Kamloth Fachbücher) [also Directories of books and journals]
• Krueger Buchhandlung (Dortmund, Germany)
  • Such ein Buch
• OECD Online Bookshop

• Impacts of Super Bookstores

• Wide World Books & Maps [Seattle], ...founded in 1976, has the unique distinction of being the first travel-only bookstore in the country. Since then we have continued to be home to a consortium of travel sages, inspired wanderers, book lovers and cartographic connoiseurs.

• Advanced Book Exchange
• Bibliofind ["Five million old, used and rare books offered here for sale by 1750 booksellers around the world make this the largest and possibly the most interesting bookselling site on the Web"]
• Interloc ["Browse Interloc's public Books for Sale database of over 3.6 Million books, maps, autographs and ephemera. It's fast, free and easy!"]

• MACFADDEN Business Communications [Online retail and marketing journals]
• Electronic Text (EText) Publisher

Other On-Line Publishing Initiatives:

• Digital bookstore set for downloads Seattle Times, August 9, 2000, 12:00 a.m. Pacific by Kim Chipman Bloomberg News

  NEW YORK - Microsoft teamed with No. 2 online bookseller barnesandnoble.com and two major book publishers to unveil the first digital bookstore using Microsoft software, aiming to tap consumer demand for electronic books.

• Transforming Libraries, ISSUE 3: ELECTRONIC SCHOLARLY PUBLICATION, June 1997 Introduction: A Word from the Editor: Welcome to the corresponding website for this issue of Transforming Libraries covering the broad topic of electronic scholarly publication. Subsequent volumes of this publication may address specific topics brought up here. Some 25 professionals in 20 libraries, consortia, and publishing enterprises were interviewed for this issue.
• Business Model: A New Intermediary in the Publishing Industry (Conference Report, UW, 1997) Our model establishes a new intermediary to provide a digital storefront for the distribution of an expansive range of international popular magazines from content providers to end users. This new intermediary will augment and possibly replace functions in the value chain presently handled by retailers, clearinghouses and purchasing groups.

William G. Bowen, President, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, "JSTOR AND THE ECONOMICS OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION," ARL Fall Membership Meeting, October, 1995, Program Session II, October 4, 1995

Goffe, William L and Robert P. Parks, "The Future Information Infrastructure in Economics," The Journal of Economic Perspectives 11(3), Summer 1997, pp.75-94.

Varian, Hal R., "The AEA's Electronic Publishing Plans: A Progress Report," The Journal of Economic Perspectives 11(3), Summer 1997, pp.95-104.