Publishers, Distributors and Online Booksellers

Home School Distributors

Family Unschoolers Network. I haven't ordered anything from them yet although I did send emails back and forth about The Rosetta Stone language learning software that they carry. They provide a discount for home schoolers.

Online Booksellers

• Advanced Book Exchange, good for finding used books.
• Amazon.Com, huge online store with good book reviews. I find that they are about the worst of the online booksellers for textbooks based on price. They have nice reviews for a lot of books though.
• Barnes and Noble, huge online and retail store. I've shopped at both with no problems. I received a 30% discount on one of the college texts that I ordered from them.
• Best Book Buys. They search other book sites and return price information so that you can comparison shop.
• Bibliofind, online used book search. I've used them with no problems.
• Bookfinder, search for out of print and used books.
• Books 4 Home School, Used Curriculum Sites of Interest to Homeschoolers. I haven't used this service.
• ecampus.com, college bookseller. They have the best prices that I've seen so far. I haven't ordered from them yet.
• Follett's. They carry new and used college textbooks though they never seem to have the books that I'm looking for. I also found their website to be harder to use compared to Varsitybooks and Bigwords. I've never ordered anything from them though I did try a few times.
• Interloc, The Electronic Marketplace, used books exchange. I've used this service with no problems.
• K12Books is a place to buy and sell K12 textbooks. The sellers, from what I can see, are school districts. The prices for many new texts are below 50% of list price.
• Textbooksatcost.com contains a wide selection of college textbooks including used texts. I didn't see a price advantage over other sites for a selected sampling of books that I'm familiar with. I haven't ordered from them.

Publishers and Curriculum Providers

• Addison-Wesley
• American Association of University Presses
• American Home School Publishing
• Calvert School. Correspondance programs.
• Cambridge University Press
• Chelsea Publishing Company, 15 E 26th St, New York, NY 10010-1505, 212-889-8095
• Continental Press. Publisher of supplementary educational materials geared towards elementary age children.
• Glencoe/Mcgraw-Hill 800-334-7344 (Merrill Mathematics)
• Greenleaf Press, Biblically-Oriented History Resources
• Glencoe
• Harper-Collins
• Harvard University Press
• Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
• Heath
• Holt, Rinehart and Winston
• Houghton-Mifflin
  • College: 800-225-1464
  • Elementary and Secondary: 800-733-2828
  • Trade: 800-225-3362
• HSLDA
• Jones and Bartlett (nice college stuff)
• Key Curriculum Press
• Macmillan
• McDougal-Little
• McGraw Hill
• MIT Press
• Morgan Kaufman
• Oxford University Press
  • Oxford University Press - United States This site has a children's section with quite a nice selection of educational titles. I think that it can supplement a reading list when visiting a good library or bookstore.
• Prentice-Hall: Good college-level materials.
• Saxon
• Saunders College Publishing
• Scholastic, makers of The Magic School Bus, Goosebumps, The Babysitters Club, etc.
• Scott-Foresman
  • 800-554-4411
  • [email protected]
• Silver Burdett Ginn, (800) 848-9500
• Simon and Schuster
• WH Freeman 800-288-2131, 800-877-5351
• John Wiley & Sons
• Yale University Press
• W.W. Norton