Canadian Internet Bookstores often have the lowest shipping charges.

• The Poetry Spoken Here Bookshop of the League of Canadian Poets offers books of poetry by League Members, as well as winners of the National Poetry Contest, the Canadian Poetry Chapbook Competition, The Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. The Bookshop also offers the latest edition of the invaluable guide Poetry Markets for Canadians, the elegant poetry-teaching manual based on the combined experience of League Members, Poets in the Classroom, and the LCP Living Archives Series documents the presentation of the panels sponsored yearly by the Feminist Caucus of the League, and includes various texts, correspondences, and other works significant to its history and the discussion of women and language in poetry. The Living Archives Series is a celebration of a multiplicity of voices, perceptions, and literary styles, all in the political context of feminist analysis and commitment to action.
• Afterwords is a small online bookstore which features unusual and hard-to-come-by items by Canadian poets such as jw curry, bp Nichol, Peggy lefler, David UU, etc..
• Northwest Passages is an attractive online CanLit bookstore.
• <Bookbroker, run by Derek Barnes is a Canadian on-line book marketplace with an interest in publishing "excerpts, reviews or news about Canadian poets," including links to their sites.
• Winnipeg's former Heaven Book and Art Cafe lives on in a selection of Canadian books and spoken word tapes through Cyclops press, including works by Patrick Lane, Al Purdy, and Lorna Crozier, with Real Audio samples.
• Deanna Ramsay, Bookseller maintains an online list of Canadian Book Sites. Here you can find not only Canadian online bookstores, but related resources.
• A big Canadian online bookshop is Chapters Indigo, also the biggest chain of "real" bookstores.
• Mcnally Robinson is an online bookseller with a special section on Prairie books.
• Some of Greater Victoria's many bookstores are on line, offering a variety of services.
• And don't forget Shakespeare's Shelf Books from Calgary.
• To help you find just the right book, Coach House Books has developed their very own virtual librarian: the Cybrarian Book Finder. It will help winnow their book list to the sort of books that interest you. You can ask to see poetry books, visual books, funny books... until you find what suits your fancy.

   

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• International Internet Bookstores often have the largest selection of new books.
• Amazon.com is a huge virtual bookstore where you can add your own review to those of other readers, or comment on your own book.
• Barnes and Noble is Amazon's biggest competitor. They bill themselves as the largest bookstore online.
• Amazon.de offers books from Germany, in German, with first-class service.
• Word Power bookstore, described as "Scotland's only radical bookshop" offers books on a wide range of subjects, including poetry. It was founded by Booker Prize Winner James Kelman in 1994.

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• Used Internet Bookstores often search world-wide, have the widest of all selection of books, and are a book-lovers dream come true.
• Powell's Books is a fantastic new and used bookstore in Portland, Oregon, with 2,000,000 titles in stock.
• Advanced Book Exchange bills themselves as the largest source for out-of-print books, with 12 million titles listed. This is a great site.
• Bibliofind Nine million used and rare books, periodicals and ephemera offered for sale by thousands of booksellers around the world make this, in their words, the most interesting book-selling site on the Web.
• Bookwire is a site for the Book trade in the US. Its main site is a little cluttered, but includes extensive links for used (antiquarian) booksellers, publishers, libraries, and other book resources, as well as a guide to writers currently on tour, and an extensive index of literary mailing lists, a number of which are Canadian.
• The Alphabet Bookshop carries Modern Literature, Rare Books, and First Editions. Use their handy search engine.
• Alibris claims to be able to find those books you thought you'd never find, with an inventory of thousands of booksellers.
• Anybook International employs many search methods, and claims to have access to every book in-print, by any publisher or author, and will search for Any book out-of-print that you may need. They specialize in conducting complete, professional book searches for in-print and out-of-print books. Searches are always free, and you are under no obligation to purchase the book when they locate it.
• Bookfinder searches from 15 million books worldwide, and has a handy currency convertor built into the site.
• The Internet Bookshop (from the UK) is Europe's largest online bookstore and claims to be the largest in the world. They're not alone.

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Offline Bookstore Services can still help.

• Book Hunter Press. Seven regional guides for bookstores selling used, out-of-print and hard-to-find books in Canada and the U.S. They don't sell online, but you can send them an email.

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  This Page is maintained by John Oughton. Last update: April, 2004
  Copyright The League of Canadian Poets, John Oughton and Harold Rhenisch, 2004