Matthew

Matthew Dear Booko, Love your work. Found you a couple of days ago, bought almost $400 worth of stuff. Sincerely hope you're getting kickbacks from it.

Just wondering, in the case where there are multiple EAN/ISBN's for a book, is there an easy way to identify the differences between them?

November 23 at 8:06pm · Report
Booko
Booko
It's a difficult problem. A single book may have many different ISBNs - paper back, hard cover, US Publisher, UK Publisher, AU Publisher etc etc.

I've not yet found a source which can tell me (for free) related ISBNS. EG - if I have this ISBN 123, what other ISBNs are related to it.

The way I do it, is just to open each book up in a separate tab of my browser. ... See More

As always, open to suggestions.

Cheers,
Dan
November 27 at 1:44am
Wendy

Wendy Is it just me, or does Dymocks no longer appear in search results?

November 11 at 3:22am · Report
Booko
Booko
It's not you - I've temporarily disabled them due to a concern they raised that Booko was not calculating the shipping correctly. Basically, they offer different shipping rates depending on where you are. I need to add a setting to Booko to let you set your location, so that the shipping calculation is accurate.

Sharp eyes!
November 11 at 4:10am
Booko

Booko Bad news for Australian book stores. Pathetic decision by Rudd & Co, ignoring the evidence based opinion of the Productivity Commission. This is exactly why I built Booko. Long live the Internet.

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November 11 at 3:16am
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Tama
Tama
It's true - local retail is dead.
November 11 at 5:00pm
Deb
Deb
I love to read books. I LOVE Booko! I love to buy my books through Booko!
November 12 at 6:35pm
Booko

Booko Booko now has a shiny new shopping cart! It includes the ability to increase the number of any particular title without needing to visit that book’s page. Read more on Booko's blogo: http://blog.booko.com.au/?p=324

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November 8 at 2:03pm
Amanda Baker Nellist
Amanda Baker Nellist
If you could do this kind of thing with out of print and second hand books I would have to cut up the credit card, and pull the plug on the internet!
November 8 at 6:17pm
Michael Gilwood

Michael Gilwood Hello Booko, nice to be here. How bout a synopsis on your website. Michael Gilwood author of DOK.

November 8 at 5:27am · Report
Booko
Booko
Hi Michael - sorry for the delay answering! Do you mean, a synopsis of the Book being viewed on the Booko website? Interesting idea - the difficulty may be in sourcing the text, but I haven't really considered it properly.
November 18 at 6:26pm
Booko

Booko Thanks Lifehacker!
"If you want to get a specific title to Australia at the cheapest possible price, look no further than Lifehacker favourite Booko, which offers a price comparison that includes all major local and international retailers."

www.lifehacker.com.au
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October 15 at 4:32pm
Andrew Waddell
Andrew Waddell
awww...that just cost me $$$...can't help myself with prices that low!
October 16 at 5:53am
Booko

Booko has taken the BookDepository.com site off Booko for the time being due to some currency conversion problems. Sorry!

September 17 at 10:09pm
Ria McMahon
Ria McMahon
Oh No!!
September 17 at 11:43pm
Tom
Tom
Augh, best book $$$ site ever!
September 18 at 2:38am
Ian

Ian This is such a brilliant site - thank you! Have already purchased a number of books through your site on the basis of the information you supply.

Question though. Could you double check the results for this please?
http://www.booko.com.au/books/isbn/9780440243823
The US website price listed is higher than the UK website... price, but the Australian price shows up as lower from the US website than the UK one. This seems unlikely, unless it's some sort of trick with the exchange rate?

Hope my question makes sense.

Thanks for your time!

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September 16 at 7:50pm · Report
Booko
Booko
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... See 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 ;-)
September 17 at 8:25pm
Booko
Booko
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 ;-)
September 24 at 6:25am
Booko

Booko Hey everyone - Booko now includes BookDepository's US site (bookdepository.com) as well as the UK version (bookdepository.co.uk). Enjoy!

September 16 at 3:31am
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Cindy Meadows
Cindy Meadows
and way way better than Amazon!

Thanks for the tip on the pricing - I guess Booko does it all for us!
September 16 at 4:34am
Amanda Baker Nellist
Amanda Baker Nellist
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!
September 16 at 3:48pm
Arran Haydon-Clark

Arran Haydon-Clark This site is so great! It would be great to have an m version of the site so prices could be checked on a mobile phone browser...like while you're in a shop. Then I'd know that I can buy the book now for $45 or buy it online for $25 and get it a week later.

September 8 at 4:22pm · Report
Booko
Booko
Hey Arran - yeah, a mobile optimised version is on the to-do list. It's quite long list though ;-)
September 15 at 5:29am
Justine Ward

Justine Ward I'm looking forward to Booko.co.uk

August 26 at 6:45am · Report
Booko

Booko is being Googled... check out the Blogo (http://blog.booko.com.au/?p=257) for details on how we're dealing with it.

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August 23 at 4:35am
Booko

Booko Borders online store has now been added to Booko. Enjoy!

August 20 at 2:49pm
Tara

Tara Thanks for the great site! Found it through PC User/Net Guide and am so thankful I did.

August 12 at 3:44am · Report
Bernadette Jee

Bernadette Jee Before I buy books I check the price on this site, keep it up

August 7 at 11:19pm · Report