July 30, 2007
Alibris Textbook Coupon - Good until 15th September ‘07
Must be University and School time again. Hot off the mailing list is this textbook coupon.
Coupon Code is: TEXTBOOKS (you’ll have to enter this on the final purchase page)
This entitles you to $5 off $50 dollars worth of books.
Valid until 15th Septemeber ‘07.
Now go search for your textbooks
or check out Alibris directly
July 13, 2007
Alibris discount coupons until 22 July 2007
Following on from the June discounts, Alibris has discounts for July as well.
Save $3 off $30: Use EVANOVICH as the coupon
Save $10 off $100: Use PLUM as the coupon
When you click through to buy a book, you can enter the promo or coupon code for a discount on the last page.
Note: discount is only off book purchase prices, not including shipping cost!
July 3, 2007
BetterWorld - 20% off a purchase of books Until July 7th
Betterworld.com are having a 20% off promotion until July 7th.
The Promo Code is FRIENDS
Note: This is entered in the last step.
I have just ordered two books, The Tipping Point and The Paradox of Choice
I can confirm that the promo code works !
I have used BetterWorld before to buy books, and was quite satisfied with the turnaround (a couple of weeks).
June 17, 2007
Alibris Discount coupons until 27 June 2007
From time to time, Alibris offers discount coupons or promotional codes.
So, until Wednesday, June 27, 2007 you can use the following:
| HALEY | $3 off $30+ | Valid until 27 June07 |
| ROOTS | $10 off $100+ | Valid until 27 June07 |
When you click through to buy a book, you can enter the promo or coupon code for a discount on the last page.
Note: discount is only off book purchase prices, not including shipping cost!
June 5, 2007
Finding all books in a page
Ever wanted to find all the books in a page?
Perhaps there are a list of ISBNs with no links? This is often the case with some academic works.
So I’ve built the “Nescholar - Books in Page” tool
This link below can be installed or added to your favourites.
For Firefox - Drag the link to your toolbar
For IE - Right Click the link - add to favourites
How do you use it?
When your on a page you want to scan just click the link from your favourites or tool bar. It’s that simple. Hopefully we’ll know whats on that page.
May 29, 2007
Betterworld - Ecologically and Socially responsible book buying
Recently I mentioned that International Shipping rates were up.
And then I stumbled upon, BetterWorld.com. From their site:
Can you fund literacy, care for the environment,
and get a fair price on the books you want?
Yep. You’re doing it right now.
I think that’s pretty cool.
So, I don’t have any magic way of searching their database, and showing the results when you search for a book. But you might want to take a look.
It’s $2.97 USD to ship internationally !
That’s $9 - $10 cheaper than Amazon.com and Alibris.
I am still waiting for my book to arrive (should be a few weeks).
It’s Another option for grabbing a bargain and helping fun literacy in underprivileged countries overseas.
May 26, 2007
Rising cost of international shipping
Costs are up on shipping. Is this the cost of Oil and it’s affect on transportation? who knows. All I know that shipping Internationally, and for me specifically to Australia, has gone up for both Alibris and Amazon. When viewing a book, we (NeoScholar) calculate the cost of shipping based on your country.
Within the last few months, Amazon has increased shipping from US $9.98 to $11.98.
That’s a 20% increase in international shipping costs for Amazon !
What about Alibris you ask:
When I started at the end of 2005 an Alibris International Ship was US $7.49, sometime last year it shifted to $9.98 (A 33% increase), and just recently increased again to $12.49 (Another 25% increase).
Overall for the last 18 Months, Alibris has increased their international shipping by 66%
By far the most expensive part of most books I buy is shipping. I have bought $0.01 books, but most cost about $5-7 USD.
That means that shipping is 2-3 times more expensive than the actual item (but still cheaper than some bookstores here in Australia). I don’t know why this is the case. Both Alibris and Amazon charge a flat rate for shipping, while Abebooks has the flexbility of per seller charges.
I am pretty sure that all Alibris purchases are sent to them for checking, before they are shipped out to you. This obviously makes the process more expensive, but I guess it also means there are less incorrect purchases.
I just bought two books today ( Shockwave Rider and Slaughterhouse Five ) which only had a shipping cost of US $8 per book. These were from Abebooks. Their variable shipping rates per merchant allow for better prices (internationally at least).
I’ll be keeping an eye out for more hikes, hopefully we wont see any .. or perhaps a decline?
May 24, 2007
What is NeoScholar?
This is part dream, a tool and a work in progress.
I like buying and reading books. NeoScholar is a tool I built to price compare between Alibris, Abebooks and Amazon.
Originally, this was a side project on a somewhat Cyberpunk, but more technology impact on society, blog Brooders.net
So, I have many plans for NeoScholar .. I want to build tools that a NeoScholar of todays world would need that aren’t there yet.
But for the moment, if you need to look for books then NeoScholar can help.