Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Biblio.com

Biblio.com won 2nd place in the 2008 Web 2.0 Awards books category. If you like used, rare or out-of-print books, this is a great resource!

To quote from their site, "We are proud to host over 5000 of the finest bookstores and booksellers worldwide, representing a combined inventory of over 50 million books from these bookstores." Biblio is a centralized site that allows you to buy from thousands of booksellers from all over the planet. You simply create an account- you have the option of using Paypal or, if you prefer credit card, of not storing your credit card info on your account (this is a nice touch). If you've ever ordered anything from Amazon, you'll be familiar with their system.

Doing a search is easy. From the front page, you can search by title, author, keyword or ISBN number. One can easily be surprised at the amount of hits on a particular title that you can come up with. Here is a sample search- check out those low prices!

The sheer number of sources that Biblio.com uses to find books for you is a powerful incentive to use their service. There's even a textbook section on their site.

Buyers and sellers from around the globe come together at this one site, and this benefits everyone in the process.

Web 2.0 is a wonderful thing :-)

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