Bookstore Price Comparison Engines
A list of the bookstore comparison engines recommended by PMFORUM users:
AddAll.com Online Bookstore Search Engine
You have a particular project management book selected and want to get it at the best price! AddAll.com is a free, online bookstore search engine that will allow you to compare book prices (and delivery costs) for more than 30 online bookstore.
AddAll.com's database includes all of the major "players" including Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, and Borders.com as well as a few other bookstores. When you find the lowest price for the book you are looking for, just click a link on AddAll's page and you are automatically transported to the appropriate bookstore's homepage.
Amazon Project Management Books
Amazon.com Books offers over one million titles, and their goal is to to carry every book in print, all available for immediate delivery.
If you know what project management book you're looking for, you can find it by searching a database of one million titles. For publishers new release books, Eyes & Editors, is a free personal notification service sends you email matching descriptions you provide.
The Project Shop - APM Group UK
The Association for Project Management on line bookstore styled as "a Premier Collection For Project Management" Check the web site or email tps@apmgroup.co.uk
Blackwell's Online Bookshop
Access one of the world's greatest bookstores, specialising in business, academic and technical books. Search & order from 1.5 million titles.
PMI® Information Source Guide
The Third Annual Source Guide is a comprehensive listing on PMI - USA Publications and Commercial Publications dealing with business, career development, communications, computing, construction, cost, engineering, environment, human resources, industry, procurement, product development, quality, risk, marketing and time. For further order information send an email message to the PMI - USA: pmihq@pmi.org.
The Book Pl@ce
The Book Pl@ce on line bookstore has a huge database of books. Each book gets a brief description akin to the information on a dust jacket. Searching this vast database of books is versatile and effective. Not only can you search on book title and author, but also on single words and phases used in the book description. Start with search phrase project management to get a substantial listing of books on the subject.
The BookPlace database is supported by BookEnds, an online magazine which has weekly top ten reviews from publishers and reviews of the latest titles. You can access BookEnds at it own URL www.bookends.co.uk.
Jossey-Bass
Jossey-Bass Publishers provides thoughtful professionals, executives, and scholars with useful, leading-edge books and journals that are based on research and proven in practice. Jossey-Bass books and journals cover topics of interest to a wide range of practitioners in Business & Management; Conflict Resolution, Mediation, & Negotiation; Education; Health; Higher & Adult Education; the Nonprofit Sector; Psychology; Public Administration, Religion and Training and HRD.
New York Times Books on the Web
The highlight of the New York Times Book Review is the searchable archive of over 50,000 book reviews, author interviews, and book news articles from the newspaper and the New York Times Book Review since 1980. It also contains the full text of the weekly Book Review (available on the web since January 5, 1997) as well as a feature called "Life and Times: Major authors, in their own words and ours," and selected first chapters from New York Times Book Review or New York Times best seller list books. Note that these sites, while free, require registration.
PMI® Online Bookstore
The Project Management Institute Online Bookstore lists books published by the Institute and has an extensive catalogue of books dealing with project management.
SearcheBooks.com
MaxBot.com, offers SearcheBooks, a search engine that indexes the full text of "thousands" of online books.
SearcheBooks has a keyword search interface and caches the versions of pages that it finds. SearcheBooks returns two URLs for each hit, one for the provider's page, and one for the full text of the book. While the search engine can be used to find particular references within the books indexed, it is better to search for the books themselves, for personal or pedagogical use, via author, title, or subject.