01-05-2009, 04:17 PM | #1 |
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Price/Availability Comparison Site...does it exist?
Hey everyone. I just got my Cybook for Christmas so please bear with me if I'm missing something really simple here.
If I'm looking for a book, I hate having to search through Fictionwise, Books on Board, Mobipocket, Baen, Ebookmall. Does there exist a website that aggregates all the selections and price from various ebookstores and allows you to search on that site? I guess something similar to www.pricegrabber.com where you put in a product name and it gives you back all of the websites that have that product and for what price... Thanks. |
01-06-2009, 08:23 PM | #2 |
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Anyone?
So everyone here, when looking for a book, checks six different websites? |
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01-06-2009, 08:24 PM | #3 | |
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Also, I know some specific sites have certian books cheaper. Like Pocket Books sells Star Trek books for less than most places, even Kindle store. BOb |
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01-07-2009, 03:28 PM | #5 |
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Well there was a project to develop a search engine to search multiple sites, Discussed in these threads
Unified Search Engine - The ball is in motion What is a good name for a cross-publisher ebook search engine? There is a Wiki entry as well for Unified Ebook Search Engine and there is a Java beta version of the search engin which searches a few of the sites which have open API's called JAM Which you could try out. Its still pretty beta, so not that usable, but its worth keeping an eye on. I did try to create a custom google search for those sites but could not get it to work. Perhaps someone who's can make more sense of the system could implement one until a custom search engine is ready. |
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09-27-2009, 01:15 AM | #6 |
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here is another one you can try:
http://MetaEbooks.com |
09-28-2009, 05:42 AM | #7 |
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There's also http://inkmesh.com/ , from the front page of News here.
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