Bookfinder - find and compare book prices

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Posted in » Online Tools, Search Engines - by Ades on October 14th, 2007

If you can’t find a book in Amazon then this should be your next alternative. Because it has over 125 million books registered in the system. You can search for new, used, rare, out of print, international, and textbooks. But unlike Amazon when you find the book, this website will send you to the publisher’s site. So it’s not an online bookstore but merely search engine to find books.

Ships internationally, even used books

The good thing about this site is that it works in US and internationally, for international users it detects your origin of country and can search for books that can be shipped to your country. Because most of the time Amazon won’t ship used books internationally.

Find a cheaper book

Since it has many sources to search for books, it can also compare you prices and find you the cheapest book available in the network. I think this is the best feature. Because if you buy from Amazon you will get one price only (for new books).

www.bookfinder.com (not a paid review)

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7 Responses to “Bookfinder - find and compare book prices”

  1. By Scott on Oct 14, 2007

    I have actually used bookfinder for a long time now, especially since our other business is selling books, and it does have a service that I haven’t found anywhere else, and it has it shortcomings as well. One thing when you are searching, be sure to include accurate information for the search string, it is unforgiving and doesn’t work with mis-spellings, and “almost” correct guesses, it has to be exact.

  2. By FAKAM on Oct 14, 2007

    thx for search book

  3. By Adam on Dec 8, 2007

    Scott - Try checking http://www.smartbookfinder.com, SmartBookFinder.com. They are great new web 2.0 book price comparison search engine. They have FAST and accurate searching and comparisons. I too am a bookseller and I use this website on a daily basis.

  4. By Amanda on Jul 1, 2009

    I’ve tried this site also, and also found it a bit unforgiving as for misspellings. The book search site http://www.bookspy.net/ is a bit more lenient in that regard, as well as being a bit simpler to use. It also has free book scouting tools for sellers.

  5. By Trey Angelino on Sep 25, 2009

    There are many very good websites out there for comparing book prices. I would recommend http://www.studentbooksearch.com if you are a student as they have a textbook exchange which you can buy and sell textbook directly to other students at your college. I have already sold a few books on this site with having to face the hassle of having to ship. If you are just looking for regular books I use http://www.comparebookprices.org as there search feature seems to be very fast and unbiased. Otherwise in a pinch, I just use http://www.amazon.com as there shipping is somewhat fast.

  6. By Catlady on Nov 22, 2009

    One thing I find interesting is not all of these sites will ship every and any book internationally. I was stone walled so many times in the past. But being an international buyer I have been using a parcel forwarding company called Shipito. Now no matter what book I would like to buy, I just have that US site, be it amazon or anyone for that matter, ship it to shipito’s designated address. Once Shipito rcvs it they then forward it to me in India. Its that simple!

  7. By eastwoodreaders on Feb 19, 2010

    A must have Greasemonkey script for Firefox. (Very useful script. A must have if you buy 5 or more books per year.)
    http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/65482

    Compare book prices from various book stores. Realtime, fast and accurate. Included sites: Abebooks, Alibris, Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble, Betterworldbooks, Biblio, Borders, Craigslist, Ebay, Ebooks, Google Books, Half, Kindle Editions, Powells, Strandbooks, Thriftbooks, Walmart. Fixed and Improved BookBurro.

    If you are not familiar with Greasemonkey or FireFox I highly recommend that you:
    01. Get FireFox
    02. Install Greasemonkey Add-on
    03. Install BookInfoLine script

    You’ll love FireFox and multiple Add-ons and Greasemonkey scripts for all occasions. All process would take less that 15 minutes.


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