>Does anyone know where I could get a database of all books? I'm looking for some way to be able to scan the ISBN and have the info on the book come up.
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It depends on exactly what you're looking for. The LoC (Library of Congress) has an on-line service which might work for you.

There are several vendors marketing databases, which can provide a wide range of information. About the best of them is Bowker's Books In Print Plus, which comes on CD, and has its own search engine. There's a batch processing interface for it, and you can extract data in a wide variety of formats that are used in the library industry like BISAC, as well as export data in a number of word processing formats. Ingram offers much the same database, with extended annotation and reviews of the titles that they carry. Baker and Taylor is another vendor with a similar product, and there are a number of library catalog services that have extensive databases which they use to process books for inclusion in library collections as well.

You might consider contacting the American Booksellers Association, the Special Library Association (special in this case means other than public libraries - colleges, research libraries and the like) or some of the large library processing house like Midwest Library Service. You could also go to yourlocal library and take a peek at a magazine named Piblishers' Weekly, which is one of the large trade magazines.

>Thanks,
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>-Michelle