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Publishing/books resources

Bookwire
http://www.bookwire.com/bookwire/
This is a terrific site by Bowker (USA) which acts as a portal for numerous websites relating to books, publishing and bookselling. Includes links to numerous journals, articles, review, websites etc. (although it's mostly American).

Literary Market Place
http://www.literarymarketplace.com/
A useful site which lists thousands of publishers and literary agents which have websites. While the emphasis is on North America, there are also numerous entries for other countries, including hundreds from Australia.

National Library of Australia
Main catalogue
http://ilms.nla.gov.au/webpac-bin/wgbroker?new+-access+top
Other Australian libraries
http://www.nla.gov.au/libraries/
Libraries outside Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au/libraries/resource/oslib.html
The National Library's main catalogue (in HTML format) is an excellent resource for doing a quick check of bibliographic references, especially for Australian books. And there is an extensive listing on its site for the online catalogues of other libraries as well.

Publishing Central
http://www.publishingcentral.com/
Another US resource for the publishing industry. Plenty of useful links for writers, publishers, editors, production managers etc.

Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.net/
An amazing volunteer-fuelled project which, since 1971, has digitised around 5000 public domain books. These are available for free download from the Internet. Anyone can volunteer to help too - you just have to be a good proofreader!