Sunday, 26 February 2012

Where To Buy Books Online?

Books are the best friends of a human being. If not for books, many would go mad with the thousands of thoughts crossing their mind. Students buy books to study and pass exams, officers need books for increasing their knowledge and being more effective. Entrepreneurs need books for motivation. Above all, the human kind needs books to entertain themselves and to travel another, unknown dimension that leaves them refreshed.

Though there may be several book shops available in your area, you might not find the books you want in those book shops. Some books are common such as Chetan Bhagat books, R S Aggarwal books and Sidney Sheldon books. While some books may be rare to find out such as Books on Kim Philby. Going in search for these books could be quite a task. And then, there are areas that sell only school books. These are rural or sub-urban areas that do not have the bigger book dealers and would sell only local, cheap novels and comics.

This is where the Internet comes to rescue. You simply need to run a search on online book shops and you will get plenty of book stores on the Internet. However, there is a problem here too. Not all online book stores would be selling the books in their original form. The piracy industry often takes books and changes them before putting them online. I had a chance to read Harry Potter story that was totally different from what I read later in the original book. I will speak more about it later.

The idea of online book stores is to provide you with books that are authentic and in good form at reasonable costs. If you wish to buy books that are used, you may find online stores for that also. Amazon and eBay would sell used books but they cannot guarantee that the book is intact and that it contains all the pages that are available in the original book. The only way you come to know of missing pages while buying old books is when you pay and start reading it. That would be a huge turnoff.

I would suggest buy books that are original and new, from reputed online book stores that you can reach out to when you find any problem with the books you purchased.

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