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Google Book Search - Search and preview millions of books from libraries and publishers worldwide. Discover a new favorite or unearth an old classic.
Google Book Store Best of the Free - Access and download classic works and out of copyright editions.
The Online Books Page - Features over 35,000 free books on the Internet.
Project Gutenberg - The first and largest single collection of free electronic books.
Smashwords - Ebooks from independent authors and publishers
Top 10 Reviews - Reviews of the top ten bestselling ebook reader devices.
Cnet Reviews - Reviews of top rated ebook reader devices.
Entertainment
Academy Awards - Includes a searchable database of all Academy Award winners and nominees.
Allmovie - Includes movie overviews, reviews, cast details, production credits, awards, and more.
Based on the Book - Compilation of over 1,250 books, novels, short stories, and plays that have been made into motion pictures. View by movie title, movie release year, book title, or book author.
Internet Movie Database (IMDb) - Provides information about movies and TV shows, from who was in it, to who made it, to trivia about it, to filming locations, and even where you can find reviews and fan sites on the web.
Motion Picture Association of America - Association that administers movie ratings.
TV Guide - TV listings, online videos, entertainment and celebrity news, and more.
TV.com - Provides information about TV shows, has TV and entertainment news, TV listings, and more.
Music
AllMusic - All genres and styles of music are covered here, ranging from the commercially popular to the obscure. It includes critiques of albums and artists within the context of their own genres, as well as pertinent facts.
Billboard - Billboard.com is the website for Billboard magazine.
Classical Music Navigator - This site provides information about 444 important classical music composers, including style/period, genre profile, quantity of work produced, type of music best known for, notable works, musical influences, and composers influenced.
Cyber Hymnal - This site includes over 6,900 Christian hymns and Gospel songs from many denominations. It includes lyrics, scores, MIDI files, pictures, history, and more.
Performing Arts Reading Room - Library of Congress - The Performing Arts Reading Room is the service point for the broad and diverse collections of the Music Division at the Library of Congress.
Public Domain Music - This site provides lists of public domain music, royalty free music recordings you can license, and public domain sheet music reprints.
Worlwide Internet Music Resources - This guide provides links to all types of music resources online.
Theater
Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) - IBDb archive is the official database for Broadway theatre information.
Tony Awards - Official site for The American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards.
WWW Virtual Library for Theatre and Drama - Provides links to theatre and drama resources online.
Business
Investing
Websites
Dollar Times - Financial calculators for loans, investments and savings, and personal finance.
Investopedia - A resource for free stock education. They have thousands of articles, tutorials, and practice tests on investing and the stock market. The site also includes an investment simulator.
Market Watch - A resource of market news, commentary, and opinion. Right from their homepage you will be lead into a wide variety of stories that are big in today’s Wall Street news.
Stock Charts - A resource for attaining stock charts on any given stock. Their charts can easily be displayed on other sites, blogs, etc. so you can use their charts for yourself and readers.
Yahoo Finance - A resource for all information across the stock market. Right from their homepage you have access to stocks quotes, news, personal finance articles, mortgage rates, currency rates, and more.
Bloomberg - Financial news, market data, investment tools, and more.
Business Week - Business news, stock market and financial advice.
Financial Times - World business, finance and political news from The Financial Times newspaper.
Forbes - Forbes magazine online with business news and market information.
Fortune - Fortune magazine online.
Reuter - Business and Finance - Business and finance news from Reuters.