There are a few things to remember:

1. Find/find the book you want (title, author or ISBN)
2. If the price seems ok with shipping costs, purchase it (you may need an account)
3. Wait for the book to arrive in the mail

Finding the book you want

Often searching by Title or Author is a great way to find the book you are after.

However, if you know the ISBN (International Standard Book Number), this will help you find the exact book you want.

These usually look like 0307353133 or 0-307-353-133

Often textbooks for university or school courses will list the ISBN.

Prices of books

NeoScholar book search automatically calculates the shipping cost to your country  through using advanced location technology.

This takes the hassle out of finding shipping costs and adding them to book prices.

Creating an Account

When you go to check out and buy a book, you will need to create an account. Don’t worry! This process is usually quick and will save you money if the book price is right.

Most online books stores require you to have an account before you purchase. This way, they can store you shipping address and contact details for future purchases.

The book stores we search here such as Amazon.com, Alibris and Abebooks all require you to create an account. It’s no big deal.

Just do it and you can enjoy.

Got any questions or comments? Just let us know.

• Why wait to retire before you have your dream holidays
• Think about how much do you actually need to go away to live a different
• What’s the worst that can go wrong
• Why do you need to slave at work if your not happy
• Are people really productive at work, or could they do it in less time.

The book go through a whole lot of tips and tricks relating to building online businesses and how to travel well but on a budget. I have read this book twice, even if you are happy in your job it’s a worth a read on how to potentially optimise your job to allow more free time to do things that you want.


While creating massive online profitable stores might not be for all of us, this book will change the way you think about your work and what you want out of life.

I recommend it.

And to confirm this “recommendation” by accident I found out that quite a few of my friends had also read it when I started asking around.


While I have not yet escaped the 9-5 (or more) days, this book has given some hope that my ideas and investments may allow me to one day escape working for someone.

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

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!

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).

So, until Wednesday, June 27, 2007 you can use the following:

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!

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.

NeoScholar – Books in Page

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.

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.

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?

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.