Amazon is the single largest online bookstore in the world. It operates in seven countries including the US, Germany, Japan, UK, China, Canada and France.
If you live in a country like India, though, where Amazon doesn’t have a local store, Amazon offers to ship goods internationally but even then ordering books from the Amazon book store is always a painful affair. Firstly, not all items can be shipped to India. Of those that can be shipped, the cost including shipping is usually prohibitive.
For most people in India ordering books from Amazon, the US store is the most convenient since, well, they have the easiest to remember website and the rates at the US bookstore are usually among the best, but have you ever tried adding up shipping from the US to India and then thinking about the cost ? Wouldn’t it be cheaper to get a book shipped from the UK store since shipping from the UK would be cheaper ?
Cheapriver is an Amazon mashup that answers those questions for you.
Just go to Cheapriver.com and type in the name of the book that you want to purchase and Cheapriver will search the US, UK, Germany, France and Canada Amazon stores and show you the cheapest price it is available for with and without shipping.
Cheapriver displays all prices in Euros so it is pretty easy to look at the neat table at a glance and see which option is the cheapest. Of course, as you can see in the image above, they also highlight the cheapest option for you in green.
Cheapriver does one thing and does it well. It doesn’t yet search all the stores and only works well for English titles but it is a good concept and if you’re anyway going to order that elusive title not available anywhere in India, give Cheapriver a try and you might just save yourself some money.
Programmer, blogger and a geek making a living shifting bits around the Internet. Sharninder is the owner of Geeky Ninja
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