Okay, let’s admit together. Amazon is way too simple to buy sell books. One click, one payment, one address and within 3 days it’s here.

So what if one day, in some extreme case that Amazon is not around. How can we feed our reading appetite and fuel our brain with knowledge?

Fret not. That’s why BooksAvenue did some searching and digging. There are many book sites with equally competitive prices. So yes, we can till survive without Amazon.

Presenting you the 5 popular book sites:

RedShelf believes in making educational content more affordable and accessible for all readers. Students can access eTextbooks and eBooks through our eReader platform across any browser-enabled device including mobile, tablet and desktop.

Offering more than 500,000 titles, and this number continues to climb every day. While the focus is on higher ed content, they also offer a range of trade and self-published books for the leisure reader.

Dubbed the Netflix of books, BookLender.com is an online rental service for paperback, children’s and audiobooks, offering subscribers access to more than 250,000 titles. The company offers a variety of subscription plans, starting at just $11.99 a month. There are no due dates or late fees and shipping both ways is free. Even better, now with promo code: SAS

BookCase.Club is a monthly subscription service for avid readers. BookCase.Club was created to share the joy of reading with the world. They believe in the importance of literature, and the magic of the written word. Stories help to expand minds, expose us to new experiences, and show us that we are not alone. Reading can often feel like a solitary activity, and the company wanted a way to bring book nerds together. By sharing the fun of unboxing BookCases, as well as reading each month’s chosen novels along with other members, BookCase hopes we find a safe and happy place among their community.

GoPeachy.com offers customers great deals on new and used Books, Textbooks, Blu-rays, Video Games, DVDs and CDs.  Their customers have learned they can count on quality products at great prices. But the value GoPeachy.com provides does not stop there. They  are dedicated to providing customers with the best media buying experience. What separates them from the competition?

From the website:

1. We strive for perfection when it comes to providing our customers with a website that is clear, accurate and comprehensive regarding product categories and descriptions, condition details, shipping and payment options and shipping times.

2. We inspect all products for sale and grade each of them under strict condition guidelines so you know the product you will get BEFORE it arrives.

3. We pass on shipping savings to our customers by offering low standard and priority shipping rates, further shipping discounts when you take advantage of multiple item shipping discounts and FREE shipping on orders $25.00 and over.

4. We provide the fastest order processing guaranteeing shipment within 24 business hours of order date and time.

5. All of our customers receive e-mailed order confirmations, tracking numbers for every domestic order no matter how small or large and professional customer service.

We are proud to have served thousands of satisfied customers and look forward to serving you.

Over in the US, Amazon Prime Day (8 July 2019) is the stuff of legend. This is Amazon’s signature sale for good deals, especially for electronics and home stuff: Think Apple Watch, Fitbits, Amazon Fire TVs, Kindles, etc. These deals are only open to Prime members.

In Singapore, Amazon Prime Day happened for the first time last year. And it is back now again, today!

What does it mean?

Customers in Singapore are given two delivery options:

1. 2-hour delivery for orders more than S$40 will be free.
2. For orders less than S$40, it will cost S$5.99 to deliver the orders within two hours, or S$9.99 for a faster 1-hour delivery. 2-hour delivery is available across all delivery areas. 1-hour delivery is only available in selected postal codes.

On top of that, please note:

• Delivery times are between 10am to 10pm, seven days a week, available across Singapore and Sentosa. Amazon does not currently deliver to the outlying islands.
• Amazon Prime Now allows customers to place orders for same-day or next-day deliveries.
• If the delivery arrived later than stated, customers can reject the order. 

Membership program offers special benefits including:
* Instantly watch thousands of movies and TV episodes
* Borrow Kindle books
* Get unlimited FREE two-day shipping (no minimum order size)

If you don’t have a Amazon Prime yet, fret not. Sign up via the link below to start your 30 days trial today.

Join in the cost savings together!

Sign up Amazon Prime

If you spend more time in the car driving to and from work than you have time to read, you are a good candidate for audiobooks. As the name suggests, audiobooks are voice recordings of the text of a book that you listen to rather than read. Audiobooks can be exact word-for-word versions of books or abridged versions. You can listen to audiobooks on a portable music player, cell phone, computer, tablet, home speaker system, or in cars that support streaming audio.

There is a simple trick using which you can now find free version of paid audiobooks on Audible. There is actually a free Chrome extension which can help you do that with ease. After installing this extension, it will automatically find free version of paid audiobooks from the public domain, and show them to you on your Audible search. There are literally thousands of free audiobooks available in the public domain which might match with the audiobooks on Audible.

3 STEPS to get FREE Audiobooks

STEP 1: Sign up for Audible trial for FREE here.

If Audible is not available in your country, you can also get a FREE VPN here. With the VPN, you can change the country to where Audible is available.

STEP 2: Install the “Sponge” extension on Chrome browser. Only Chrome browser.

STEP 3: Click on the “Download Audiobook Now” button to download them to your PC

The Sponge extension for Chrome makes it very easy and simple for you to find free audiobooks and save money from buying paid ones on Audible. All within clicks and scroll.

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Many eBooks are cheaper than paperbacks & many are free to download. Look at the economics of the system & you’ll see the price inefficiencies woven throughout the pricing mechanism.

Here are some very important consequences of the internet & eBooks:

1) The publisher’s old standby of the no, or very little, royalty cost book business has been devastated by the existence of sites like Project Gutenberg. Now, instead of buying a copy of Plato’s Dialogs in paperback format, just download it for free at the Plato page on gutenberg.org!

2) Downloaded eBooks have a moderately high cost of creation, but a near zero cost of distribution. The distribution expenses of server storage & electronic marketplace are a high barrier of entry, but ultimately amortize over millions of downloaded eBooks.

3) There is an ongoing fight over the pricing of eBook versions of Best Seller books.

See Amazon.com: The Battle of $9.99, How Apple, Amazon, and the Big Six Publishers Changed the E-Book Business Overnight (Kindle Single) eBook. A $0.99 eBook on a part of this war!

4) The fact that places like Amazon, Barns & Noble, and others have “Discount Books of the Day/Month” and other pricing schemes & the eBook pricing bounces all over the map as the sellers attempt to maximize sales & profits. (Think airplane seats & the idea of “Yield Management” and you should get the picture.)

Even so, over the years a lot of things have changed the industry, the publishers and ultimately the end users: readers.

So to answer the question, “Are ebooks really cheaper now?”, you have to read our earlier article here: Why Are E-books More Expensive Than Printed Books? 

Yet bear in mind, that article was written and compiled in 2013.

In recent years, it is relatively cheaper. And to make things easier to compare, I will list it in points.

1. Read Amazon books for FREE
2. How to Buy Kindle Books For Those Living Outside US
3. Amazon FreeTime Unlimited (Unlimited ebooks, apps and TV programs for kids)

And lastly not forgetting, we have FREE book swaps in Singapore.

So on an ending note, e-books might be cheaper. It depends on where you are getting it from and if you have the promo links to get the better, cheaper rates for your reading pleasure.

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