This list, which began life in the 1990s, is not regularly checked for broken links, but the maintainer, J. P. E. Harper-Scott, would be very grateful to be alerted to the need for any changes or additions (email).
- AAUP (Association of American University Presses), On-line Catalogue (“contains fully searchable bibliographic data and descriptive text from more than fifty scholarly publishers; currently, 65,000-plus titles are represented, and this number is expected to climb rapidly to more than 100,000 titles from nearly 100 presses”); alternative address also available
- AddAll
- Advanced Book Exchange (searches for secondhand books)
- Alexander Publishing, Los Angeles, CA (site includes a Fast Music Links section)
- Amazon
- Antiquarian Book Association of America
- “Anybook.com”, from BookServe International (searches for books published in the USA, in or out of print)
- Ashgate Music Studies
- Austin Sherlaw-Johnson (mostly academic, regular catalogues for mailing-list subscribers)
- Bibliocity
- Bibliofind
- Biblion (“probably the largest UK based used book search site, including books on music”)
- Bookfinder (searches for out-of-print books)
- Biblionet (catalogue of Libreria musicale italiana: online orders may be placed)
- Bookpages (British books in print; orders may be placed online)
- Bookstores in the United Kingdom, by city
- Bookstores throughout the world, by city
- Boydell and Brewer
- Browns Music, Vitak-Elsnic Publications, New Ulm, MN, USA
- The Church Instrumentalist (instrumental sheet music and recordings, with over 2200 titles; seasonal discounts; orders shipped same day when received by 12:00 p.m. EST)
- CIRT (International Centre for the Retrieval of New, Ancient and Rare Books: up-to-date list of new Italian books and microfilms on a variety of humanities subjects, including music)
- Colin Coleman Music (‘specialists in unique, rare, important and unusual music items (except instruments) ranging through the sixteenth to twenty-first centuries and covering both famous and obscure composers’)
- DISCANTUS.com (“Spanish musicological publications, as well as unusual Spanish recorded music”)
- Ernst-Kuhn-Verlag, Berlin
- European American Music (publisher) (includes information about EAM’s composers, listings of recent publications, and a calendar of recent and future performances of EAMDC publications; and facilities to apply for copyright permission online)
- Instrumental Music Books (Van Cott Information Services, Las Vegas: book sales by mail order, primarily clarinet-related)
- Index of booksellers (The Internet Book Fair)
- Interloc
- James Thin Bookshops, Edinburgh (including searchable catalogue)
- J. and J. Lubrano Music Antiquarians, Lloyd Harbor, New York
- Joseph Mason (online catalogue)
- Literary Guillotine (via e-mail), a source for out-of-print scholarly books
- Livre-Rare-Book (located in Lyon, ship worldwide, with a large, browsable collection, mostly of books in French)
- Martin Silver, Musical Literature, Goleta, CA
- Music & Audio Connection (Norris-Whitney Communications, a company involved in magazine and book publishing and distribution, live event management, graphic design and on-line services)
- Music Books Plus
- Music Bookstore (sales of books by Florida State University musicology faculty, maintained by Michael O’Connor)
- Music Book World (“new, used, and out-of-print music books in many genres such as jazz, blues, classical, opera and world music, and sheet music with worldwide delivery”)
- Musicroom (sheet music and books on music)
- Netherlands Antiquarian Book Association (NAN), with links to important book concerns on the internet
- Pendragon Press, including a search engine accessing the complete catalogue
- Powell’s Books (bookshop in Portland, OR, with very large stock of new, antiquarian and second-hand books)
- Publishers’ catalogues home page
- Rieks Sodenkamp Music Publishers, Maastricht, Netherlands
- Rodger Friedman Antiquarian Books, Tuxedo, NY
- Schirmer Books
- Sunhawk Corporation (music publisher and online music store, delivering playable, printable sheet music via the Internet using SOLERO TM technology)
- Walrus and Otter Publishing (big band arrangements and CDs)
- Waterstones Bookstore
- White Cliffs Media, catalogue of books and recordings, primarily on African music (Gilsum, NH)
- The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Publishers (maintained by Jonathan Bowen at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory)