Monday, July 09, 2007

Find Online Books at AbeBooks

Abe Books’ search interface is straightforward and makes narrowing down your book results very easy. On the main page, you can search by the typical search functions: author, title, keyword, or ISBN. During our navigation, we found Abe Books' website to be very bland compared to their competitors' graphic designs.

Good thing we didn't "judge a book by its cover!" This online bookstore is packed with books - over 100 million books from 13,000 independent book sellers! As we narrowed our search down, we were able to learn more about the individual titles and their condition, plus details about the bookseller and their terms.

Because the booksellers set their own terms, you need to review all of the information carefully before placing an order. Even though your purchases will be made through separate booksellers, all of your items will be combined in a single order for added convenience.

  • Three newsletters you can subscribe to – one for collectors, readers, and book club members.
  • Giftsleuth – a forum where users ask one another for gift suggestions. All in All, Abe Books' is a relatively large online bookstore. They proved to be very effective finding all our hard-to-find books, not to mention popular new releases.
Even though the site is a little plain, it is very easy to navigate. We were a little let down with their customer support - Only email and online help for book buyers. During our price comparison, Abe Books beat everyone elses price by a long shot. 6StarReviews gives them 5.5 Stars!

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