On the Internet you can find a great number of different bookstores. Apart from the fact that you can buy books from them, many are also useful for finding information about books.
In Internet bookstores, e.g. Amazon, there are often reviews and comments from other readers, pictures and “book cover” texts from the publishers. You can also often see the table of contents pages and read short excerpts from the books. On publishers’ websites there is also often some useful information, e.g. Studentlitteratur.
Check which book store has the lowest price for the book you want! Compricer, bokfynd.nu, antikvariat.net and Book Finder are examples of search tools that compare prices from several different Internet bookstores.
Public authorities, organizations and companies often sell their publications on their websites, e.g. Boverket. (The national board of housing, building and planning).
There are also many specialized bookstores, e.g. for used course literature, law literature etc.
Jenny Löfkvist
2005-06-22
