Why another book price comparison site?

I started this venture with one goal in mind: create a SIMPLE, EASY TO USE website that only displayed relevant links to the most UP TO DATE prices from dozens of book vendors in order to offer the lowest prices to my visitors. Whether it be used textbooks, used books, or new books, you should be able to quickly find the best price.

As a graduate student, I have browsed many book comparison websites and noticed that, while most websites were relatively easy to use, changing from one form of price comparison to another was often a hidden function. For example, if I was looking for a book to buy, and wanted to quickly see the buyback prices for the book, I would have to search the website for a link to compare the book's sell price. I have overcome this on my site by implementing a tab system. For any ISBN searched for you can quickly compare prices both domestically and internationally, as well as buyback prices for the book. I have also added another feature not present on most book comparison sites; The ability to search through WorldCat for copies of the book at your local libraries. Now, you can not only get a low price for the book you are searching for, you may be able to get it for nothing at all!

Another feature that is implemented is real time pricing information. A lot of book price comparion sites aggregate book prices in a database, and it is not updated often. This allows for quicker searches, but the price may not always be accurate. If you search at other book price comparison sites and then go to buy the book, you may find out that the price displayed did not match the price at the actual store. Not so with Compare-Books. Our searches occur in real time, so only the most up to date prices are displayed.

I hope this encourages you to at least check out our humble corner of the web, and save a bit of money at the same time. I am looking forward to hearing from people! Have a great year everyone!