The British Library has added details of more than 2.55 million titles to Amazon.co.uk's book catalogue, 1.7 million of which date back to before the introduction of ISBN in 1970.
The aim is for Amazon.co.uk customers to benefit from the increased selection, while sellers of used, specialist and antiquarian books will be able to list a far wider selection of their titles on Amazon.co.uk.
The deal has expanded the number of titles that third-party sellers can be listed against where Amazon.co.uk doesn't provide a retail offering.
These titles will be available through Amazon.co.uk's third-party Marketplace service, which enables customers to buy and sell new, used and collectable items from third-party sellers.
Old editions on the web site range from Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind (1961), Enid Blyton's The Enchanted Wood (1951) and The Big Noddy Book (1967) to Luther Hess Waring's Political Theories of Martin Luther (1968) and Ivor Herbert's The Queen Mother's Horses (1967). In addition, more obscure titles dating back to 1570 include Italian sheet music and old English ballads and poems.
A spokeswoman for Amazon.co.uk said: "Now, we have catalogue information for books we didn't have before. We have the information and we're providing the facility to buy."
Natalie Ceeney, director of operations and services at the British Library, explained: "The Library's alliance with Amazon.co.uk is a wonderful way to make our catalogue data relevant and available to a much wider audience. Our bibliographic catalogues are second-to-none and we are delighted that Amazon.co.uk will be using them to underpin and support the Marketplace service."
Greg Hart, director for media products at the e-tailer, added: "Amazon aims to be the place where customers can find and discover anything they want to buy online, and our alliance with the British Library is a clear demonstration of this strategy."
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