04.03.08
So today another good idea got made into something. With everything ever for sale being available on the web, the price wars were always going to happen, and in some ways we’ve moved past them (I’ll buy from Amazon because it’s easy even if Jeff’s Mega Book World is a pound cheaper). Once you go beyond the rock bottom prices, the more interesting things include sales, and offers. I linked to a paper which found bargins on Amazon a while ago and today (via the magic of Twitter’s public timeline) I found Buy it Later, a Firefox plugin which lets you maintain a hotlist of stuff you’re interested in, and then messages you (emails or tweets) when they drop in price, or come back into stock.
I might sign up. I should sign up. I should get out of the habbit of buying books one at a time as I hear abuot them, and wang them all on a list like this instead.
Duckster said,
April 4, 2008 at 12:53 pm
I should sign up to this too. It might help me alleviate the mountain of books that need to be read. Although it would be of no help if I’m in a shop.