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BooksGuide to the best places to buy books on lineLooking at buying books online in the UK? Well, in this section you'll find the renown High Street book shops, as well as a selection of popular and well established Internet only book stores.
Abebooks is the world's largest online marketplace for books. Whether it's new, used, rare, or out-of-print, you can find over 80 million titles through their community of thousands independent booksellers from around the globe.
Amazon is probably the best-known online book site. A fast and efficient site allows you to search or browse easily for a colossus of titles. There's 50% off best sellers and smaller discounts (10-20%) on other titles. You can be pretty sure you'll find most titles you are looking for here. A great additional feature of this site are the customer reviews of books.
With up to 50% OFF paperback titles and other offers, Asda does its best to compete with the cheapest on line bookstore retailers. And, for the real booklovers there's also a book club that gives you regular reviews of new books, interviews with authors, previews, sample chapters and more.
The BBC Shop sell over 4,000 BBC products online. You'll find all the latest book titles relating to BBC's gardening, cookery, science, history and motoring programs.
This well-known High Street book store offers over 1.4 million titles online. They also sell maps, rare books and E-books. The site also features book reviews and you can read about the latest discussions of the Blackwell's Reading group in their 'Reader's Corner'.
Books Direct is your gateway to the UK's leading book clubs. This is not just a new Internet entrant, as they have 35 years experience and over 2 million members in the UK. Discounts on bestsellers are as high as 75%, but you'll need to join a club. So only recommended if you are a very regular book buyer.
At Borders, the High Street book store, you can do much more than just buy books online (with money saving discounts of upto 40%). Their excellent site also features synopsis browsing, a worryingly accurate book predictor, forums, blogs, competitions, a store locator and information on the latest deals at your local Borders store.
Countrybookshop, which sells books from an old railway station in the Peak National Park, is a well established multi-channel retailer of books. They offer over 1 million titles online and their site also features an out-of-print search facility. The site can also be accessed through WAP phones and you can save up to 80% on Bargain Books.
Eruditor.com is a pure, on line only bookstore, which aims to offer very low prices by reducing office costs and delivering direct from the factory. They offer a good selection of books in English ranging from fiction, sports and biography to economics, literature and social sciences.
Foyles, the world's greatest book shop, offers more than 1.4 million titles online and actually keeps more than 4 million volumes in stock. You will find phone numbers for every department of their Charing Cross Road store to help ensure that your inquiries and orders receive genuine personal attention from their knowledgeable and helpful staff.
At HMV.co.uk you'll also find the latest book releases and best sellers. Prices are competitive and there're always some tasty promotions and special offers going on.
As the name suggests, Listen 2 Books, specialises in selling audiobooks, i.e. bestselling stories and books on DVD or tape which are read by famous actors and which you can listen too anyplace anywhere. Their wide range includes fiction, non-fiction, crime, classics, drama, thriller and children's. Prices are competitive compared to other shops and you can also listen to sound clips before buying.
If you like romantic fiction, then Mills and Boon doesn't need any introduction, as they're the most recognised publisher in this space. You can buy all their novels online one month ahead of the retail stores, read interviews with the authors and free chapter extracts.
Ottakar's is one of Britain's leading book chains with a reputation for strongly individual High Street shops staffed by book enthusiasts able to offer superlative levels of customer service. Ottakers have tried to reproduce this local branch individualism and expertise on their web site. You will find reviews and articles generated by their network of booksellers from some 78 branches.
Pickabook offers over 5 million books from stock and great discounts. They also sell a good selection of audio books.
Play.com are popular for their low prices on CDs and DVDs, but, they now do just as well on books. Delivery is free and service has been excellent so far for us.
Tesco's wide range of online products also includes books. They have over 1 million book titles to choose from. Prices are competitive and often cheaper than in their supermarket stores.
The Good Book Guide is one of the leading independent booksellers, offering a choice of over 1 million books for you to buy. But, they go slightly further and independently review and recommend the best books in their monthly magazine (to which you can subscribe) and on their website.
The Hut is an exciting new online entertainment shop bringing you chart books from £4.99 including free delivery.
Waterstones is one of the UK's leading specialist booksellers with its flagship store in Piccadilly, London being the biggest bookshop in Europe. And now you can directly buy books online from Waterstones excellent website. The Waterstone's editorial team also provides honest reviews, literary news and book recommendations.
WH Smith is also a great destination for buying books online, with over 1.4 million titles to choose from. Discounts usually range from 10% to 50%. Their prices are usually more competitive than in their high street stores. Cannot find the book you're looking for?Have a look at our Second Hand, Rare and Out of Print Books section or, search the Internet for more bookstores or the specific book you're trying to find. back to top of book shops © 2009 SoMuchEasier.co.uk. All rights reserved.
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