Booko

awww...that just cost me $$$...can't help myself with prices that low!

Oh No!!

Augh, best book $$$ site ever!

Hi Ian - great question. In fact, looks like the price grabber for the US site is not working properly, so I'm disabling it for the time being. Thanks for letting me know.

The difficulty is that the BookDepository (BD) sites uses a clever system to figure out what part of the world you're from, then they displays an appropriate currency. Here in... Read More Aus, we get GBP, but Booko, being hosted in the US, gets USD. The first problem this created was that BD.co.uk had its prices converted from GBP->AUD, and the BD.com site had its prices converted from USD->AUD. These conversions can get a bit hinky, because if you visit the both the BD sites, you'll see the price in GBP - and sometimes Booko displayed one as cheaper than the other, when the opposite was true. The difference is only in pence, but still.

Now the problem you've pointed out makes me think Booko is back to getting GBP, but still doing a USD->AUD conversion. I'll have to take a closer look when I get home from my day job ;-)

Haha yeah - I have a day job. Booko started out as just a site for me to use. It's slowly grown ever since I put it on the web. It is taking up more and more of my time though ;-)

and way way better than Amazon!

Thanks for the tip on the pricing - I guess Booko does it all for us!

Sometimes the US site is significantly cheaper! Keep an eye on any books that you know are coming up for release, as the pre-order prices on the US site can be as much as 54% off!

Hey Arran - yeah, a mobile optimised version is on the to-do list. It's quite long list though ;-)

Yay another overpriced store to ignore :P

Hi Rebecca - Booko isn't a book shop! It just finds the cheapest shop for you - contact the shop you purchased the book from for shipping details.

Thanks Ben! Booko doesn't like over-the-top book prices either. :)