Book Bargains

Wow! GREAT deals!

 

For those of you who like to search for books online, go to allbookstores.com

This site will search all of the available websites that sell books and give you the best prices.

 

Following are two GOOD sites for books.

http://www.christianbook.com/

http://www.conservativebookclub.com/

 

I bought a copy of a book on the sinking of the Titanic, published the year after. Got it for a quarter several years ago.

 

My first stop when looking for a great book deal: http://books.ebay.com

The first seller I look for on ebay:
http://stores.ebay.com/99-Cent-Book-Shop

I've bought probably 40-50 books from this guy, usually at 99 cents a pop (and usually still in bookstores for $50 or more).

 

Depends on the book. I bought a technology textbook from him recently for $5.99 (that's including the shipping) which would have cost me $110 at the nearby bookstore. Most books I've bought from him would sit at the $50-$60 range normally, so I'm quite happy.

But yes, ebay can seem better that it really is, because it's easy to forget about the shipping costs when bidding.

 

I never even consider bidding until I've checked teh shipping costs.
But I've found some really good deals on Ebay with books--especially ones that are hard to find.

 

Second hand shops such as the Goodwill Store and the Salvation Army Store (here in the USA) can have really good books for 10 cents to a couple of dollars. I have gotten books that way that would have cost me hundreds of dollars from a bookstore new. If you ever go to garage sales, you can also find great deals on books.

 

I'm an ebay addict.

Here's a deal: a genuine original 1611 KJV, for less than $50,000:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=29223&item=6950172998&rd=1
(warning for modem users: LOTS of pics, long load time)

It's a real deal, considering one sold at Sotheby's a couple years back for more than 8 times that amount.

 

Theres a big discount store near me called "Ollies" .I can;t believe how low their prices are .I bought a book their for 3 dollars new and right down the road at the Christian book store it was 18 dollars .Ollies has more Christian books then the Christian book store has .Alot of Bibles too.

 

I enjoy reading different textbooks in fields such as biology, geology, physics, chemistry, psychology, sociology, meterology, therymodynamics, economics, etc. I go to Amazon nand look around for the most popular textbooks, and read all the reviews to get some info. Then when I pick the one I want, I just scroll down to the "all editions" link and hit it. You see, textbooks of this flavor run 110-130 dollars, but the price of even the second to last edition will drop substancially because students are always forced to buy the new edition. For most intro classes, there are many textbooks, and many editions, so you can usually find a 2000+ published book for $3 dollars that was 110 dollars two years ago. Goldmine! Unfortunaly, some of the more obscure subjects I enjoy, like planatary physics or planatary geology, only have a few authors and printings, so even 1992+ publish dates will still run 40 or 50 dollars

Now my other passion in Biblical commentaries. Unfortunatly, I mostly enjoy the ones in current series (NICOT, NIGTC, Pillar, NAC, etc) and they have a pretty fixed priced, used or new no matter where you go. Of course they average about 25-30 dollars instead of 110 but they are still to expensive to buy flippently.