Bookwire
This site, owned by the publishers, Bowker, features the authors published by Bowker, their bestsellers, E-books and a great directory guiding readers to book resources on the Internet.

Internet Book Information Centre
This long established site, emerged from the academic world in America and readers can subscribe to the daily newsletter about books and their reviews. You can read letters to the site, what's new, information on Authors, view an edited collection of book passages and see if you agree with them.

Writers Write Books
In this American site, book reviews are split into different sections such as children's, computers, cooking, fantasy, general fiction, humour and so on. Read reviews, author interviews, bestsellers lists and join the online book club.

The Mystery Reader
For crime and mystery book lovers; this site gives the reader rated reviews for hundreds of selected titles. There is author information included, as well as competitions and readers letters.

Guardian Unlimited Books
This site gives you across the board coverage of authors, new books, bestsellers, video interviews, literary gossip, first chapters, more extracts and even a virtual reality reading group.

Penguin Books
Covers Penguins publication catalogue of fiction and non fiction ebooks and audio books as well as their magazine content with new book releases, recommended authors, new authors, a children's corner, a virtual reading group, book extracts and event information.

London Review of Books Online
Subscribe to this site, or alternatively read it in Ayr Carnegie Library.

The Independent: Enjoyment: Books
The books section of this national newspaper leads the reader into author information, book reviews, interviews and features.

Listening Books
This charity site aims to provide a library service of audio tapes to anyone who has difficulty reading.