The website was down for me:( Sounds like a good idea though!
Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
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Re: Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
#142As a German I don't have to worry too much about the prices of books. We have Buchpreisbindung https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchpreisbindung
Re: Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
#143The website was down for me:( Sounds like a good idea though!
Sorry about that. My server seems to be struggling a bit roughly 1 in 50 requests are failing. I'm scaling it up more right now, it should work if you try again.
Re: Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
#144As a German I don't have to worry too much about the prices of books. We have Buchpreisbindung https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchpreisbindung
It's funny how this comment seems to have most upvotes. Good morning fellow germans ;)
It adds no real feedback to the original post but shows how much we germans love our Buchpreisbindung.
Re: Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
#145As a German I don't have to worry too much about the prices of books. We have Buchpreisbindung https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchpreisbindung
Exactly, the cheapest and fastest way to get a book in Germany is most likely your neighborhood book store on the way back from work. (And if they don't have the book in store, they can order it for the next day.)
Re: Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
#146As a German I don't have to worry too much about the prices of books. We have Buchpreisbindung https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchpreisbindung
That's a great system that you have in Germany! Does it apply to used books also?
Re: Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
#147so, doesn't look like it's finding the cheapest. You should probably check against amazon as a sanity check. (I was ignoring shipping, here)
Do you take shipping into account?
Re: Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
#148Is "cheapest" the right objective? Because if that's the case, book piracy seems like the clear winner. But maybe we should consider "cheapest with some boundaries". For instance, we probably agree that bookstores are nice for a myriad of reasons, even if we don't frequent them. They employ people in the area, they offer curation and recommendations, they invite speakers and host events, and they help local authors g…
>Because if that's the case, book piracy seems like the clear winner. You can read lots of books for free legally in the Internet Archive, specially books that are out of print. > Curation costs money (indirectly). This is mostly done by (big) publishers who want to push their shallow literature series and a couple of good books here and there. Which, again, makes places like the IA so much better for readers like me…
>You can read lots of books for free legally in the Internet Archive, specially books that are out of print.
maybe, but I guess there's also lots that are in a murky gray area
https://blog.archive.org/2022/09/03/internet-archive-opposes...
Re: Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
#149so, doesn't look like it's finding the cheapest. You should probably check against amazon as a sanity check. (I was ignoring shipping, here) Do you take shipping into account?
Yes it takes shipping into account but it's only optimized for USA users at the moment, if you're anywhere else your results might not be entirely accurate. I'm planning on adding support for more regions over the next couple of weeks.
Re: Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
#150As a German I don't have to worry too much about the prices of books. We have Buchpreisbindung https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchpreisbindung
We used to have a similar price-fixing thing in the UK called the Net Book Agreement [1]. Thankfully it got repealed and books became cheaper for all.