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[Katy]

The best and most uncorrupt online bookshop I've found is AbeBooks.


If you want to recommend any other good non-Amazon booksites, do so here.


And (ahem) fight the power! (Quietly, mind..)

[Kaleidoscope]

You can find anything you want for amazing prices at www.powells.com

[bittersweet_me]

The DVD site www.play.com has recently been enriched with a books section. You might want to check it out. The prices seem fairly reasonable.

[REMfan17]

i've been using www.half.com lately. they have great prices. you can get a good quality used paperback for usually around $1.00. with ~$2.50 shipping, you can get a book for like $3.50. can't really beat that... and if you shop around the site and find people selling multiple books you want, it's even cheaper... i got three brand new John Irving paperbacks for like $8.47 or something... i love the internet...

[Bastian]

One of many reason to avoid Amazon.com:



In amongst the baby stuff, jewlery, lawnmowers and kettles you might actually find some books, but...it`s simply too vast.

[RainEcho]

Personally I do Ebay, and look for a lot of books, and have gotten about 100 books for about 20, (and relatively new ones, in very good to excellent condition) After I read them, I either give them away to friends or charity, or sell them on Amazon. It's the only way I can fund my reading habit.  :D

[Trillium Lili]

i use http://www.isbn.nu/welcome.html  to find the best price.....but i don't see much need to buy books very often, when there is such a thing as a library.

[Bastian]

Trillium Lili said:

i use http://www.isbn.nu/welcome.html  to find the best price.....but i don't see much need to buy books very often, when there is such a thing as a library.

Hi Lili :-)

Thank god something is still free, and especially that that something is books. I kind of rediscovered the local library last year, and use it a lot more now than before. The one I use has a pretty good music department too, where you can borrow up to 10 CDs or LPs at a time. The library is also a fine place to read magazines and newspapers you wouldn`t otherwise check out.

[katfrantix]

Another idea, rather than buying the whole book (then deciding you don't like it) you can register to download the first chapter.


I Love Reading

[Ally74]

GreenMetropolis.com is a UK-based second-hand bookseller where people can buy or sell their books.

*All* books (old, new, paperback, hardback, audio book) sell for £3.75 (free delivery) and 5p from every book sold goes to the Woodland Trust so they can plant new trees.

Once you've read a book, or if you have overloaded bookshelves at home, you can sell books to the website for £3 each (plus postage charges if it's heavy).

The aim is to encourage people to recycle their books, and I think it's a great idea.
They can only deliver to the UK at the moment because of postage costs.

Why not check it out....

[ukmary]

Bastian said:

Hi Lili :-)

Thank god something is still free, and especially that that something is books. I kind of rediscovered the local library last year, and use it a lot more now than before. The one I use has a pretty good music department too, where you can borrow up to 10 CDs or LPs at a time. The library is also a fine place to read magazines and newspapers you wouldn`t otherwise check out.

I currently have 20 books out from my library with 4 waiting behind the counter in there (as 20 is the max) and 2 on order. Saves me a fortune and doesn't load up my small room. If the book isn't available I buy it second hand on amazon (sorry) read and then donate it to the library.
Libraries are fab. Well done Ben Franklin!

[Gregor Samsa]

Anyone know any well-priced Australian sites, or ones that at least have cheap international shipping? (Amazon's shipping rates are ridiculous.)

[mozzh]

In the interest of balance or perhaps to court controversy, i have nothing at all against Amazon, they sell resonably priced books, and I have found their recommendation software to be excellent, I used the site for a few weeks and the rec list included hundreds of books I had already brought!
   Maybe i'm just very predictable!:D

[TimothyCole]

I have another site of online book except amazon.I have found it three days ago. Overstock.com have a great books online...

[abc123xyz]

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[Sweet Fanny Addams]

Something about this thread seems off. Spammish. Or is that just me?

ETA-- it's also a really old thread, from 2004. Weird.

[Milsean Cady]

 Sweet Fanny Addams, on 29 October 2011 - 08:03 AM, said:

Something about this thread seems off. Spammish. Or is that just me?

Now, what would make you think that?

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[skerries]

I use bookdepository as it is usually cheaper than Amazon and free delivery worldwide
also discounts pop up very often, so even cheaper