Research Guides: Comparative Literature: Publishing and Bibliographies

Finding Publishing Information

These databases allow you to search for recent information about publishers, the publishing industry, and books currently in print.

Global Books in Print (Bowker) This link opens in a new window
Search for books in print, forthcoming books, and out of print books. Industry’s leading international bibliographic database offering more than 8 million English-language titles from the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.
Literary MarketPlace This link opens in a new window
Literary MarketPlace is a directory of America and Canadian book publishing. Users can search for publishers of a particular subject and/or type of publication, publishers in specific states or cities, and small press and specialty publishers. Literary MarketPlace also includes contact information for literary agents.

Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly is a weekly news magazine focused on the international book publishing business. It is targeted at publishers, booksellers, librarians, literary agents, authors and the media. It offers feature articles and news on all aspects of the book business, bestsellers lists in a number of categories, and industry statistics, but its best known service is pre-publication book reviews, publishing some 9,000 per year.

It is not always easy to find current statistical information about book sales and print runs. For a brief explanation and some suggestions, see this summary from Harvard University:

Where can I find detailed book sales figures or statistics?
An overview from Harvard University Library of the difficulty of finding publishers' sales data, with some suggestions for where to look.

Bibliographies

Bibliography of comparative literature by Fernand Baldensperger
Italian literature before 1900 in English translation: an annotated bibliography, 1929-2008 by Robin Healey
Call Number: Z2354.T7 H434 2011: Reference
Post-colonial literatures in English: general, theoretical, and comparative, 1970-1993 by Alan Lawson
Call Number: Z2000.9 .P67 1997: Reference