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Show HN: Boook.link – Share a book with links to all stores

88 points by Cenk 6y ago

Cenk 6y ago
Hello HN! A couple of months ago I got frustrated with always having to copy and paste the titles of books posted on Twitter to find them on my local Amazon, since authors usually only post the US Amazon link. I also want to add books to my Goodreads to-read bookshelf, so I have to search for it there too. So I built something that could solve this problem! https://boook.link https://boook.link is a web-based tool for creating one single link / landing page for a book, so your readers can choose from which store to buy your book. It also automatically converts the Amazon link to the reader’s local Amazon store. Take a look at a couple examples: https://boook.link/Severance https://boook.link/Severance https://boook.link/Fleishman https://boook.link/Fleishman https://boook.link/TheIdiot https://boook.link/TheIdiot https://boook.link/Sourdough https://boook.link/Sourdough Here’s how it works: 1. Copy and paste your books ISBN 2. We automatically fetch all the information for your book 3. We generate links to all major book retailers 4. Customize any links you want, add your personal website and Twitter account 5. Get a cool shortlink like https://boook.link/Sourdough https://boook.link/Sourdough 6. Make your readers happy and increase your sales Right now we automatically support the following stores: Amazon IndieBound Bookshop.org Apple Books Google Play Books Barnes & Noble Abe Books Book Depository Alibris Indigo Better World Books WorldCat (for local libraries) GoodReads For Amazon we can also add your affiliate tag automatically for each country. There’s also a built-in automatic Amazon link converter (similar to what geniuslink does) if you run a website with a large amount of Amazon links and want to convert them for your visitors automatically.
- replies-to-fool 6y ago
  This looks really cool! Would you consider adding support for embedding this as a widget? This will make it easier to integrate on author's websites.
- electriclove 6y ago
  Are you able to pull prices into that page too? Almost like BestBookBuys from back in the day :)
- misterpriest 6y ago
  Looks great! Can you add the option to not automatically convert to local amazon? I have all my books on the US amazon and still use it rather than converting to the Australian one (which I don’t want to do). Maybe add a chrome extension so I can click a link to the Goodreads page while I’m on the amazon page?
techaddict009 6y ago
What is difference between this and books2read? example: https://books2read.com/taming-fire https://books2read.com/taming-fire ?
- Cenk 6y ago
  It’s pretty similar in functionality. I’ve never seen an author post a books2read link though. I hope boook.link can break through to the main stream and become the lnk.to of the book world, thanks to our better design and focus on usability.
teddyh 6y ago
Wikipedia’s solution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources?isbn=0-931137-07-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources?isbn=0-931...
ggop 6y ago
Australians can use https://booko.com.au https://booko.com.au and it includes prices as well.
- exidy 6y ago
  Not just Australians.
  - ggop 6y ago
    Hah, never noticed the flag at the top.
- dkam 6y ago
  I built this to learn Rails in 2007. You can use https://booko.info/ https://booko.info/ if you want to type 2 less characters and aren't in Australia. Also, if you use DuckDuckGo you can type !booko A Series of Unfortunate Events and be taken right to the search results.
  - ggop 6y ago
    Thanks for building this service, never knew it was that old.
javajosh 6y ago
I just post the alibris link because if they really want to buy it on amazon they can type the title again. :)
riboflavin 6y ago
Kind of reminds me of https://plinkhq.com/ https://plinkhq.com/, but for books. (Not exactly, but close.) I wonder how many other types of media / physical goods this sort of service could be useful for?
quickthrower2 6y ago
Would be good if it showed the price for each store.
choward 6y ago
> Create a link that lets your readers choose which store to buy your book from You're not really buying the book of DRM is involved. Could you provide a way to only show non-DRM results?
bryan2 6y ago
Great app: Have you considered adding biblio?
- Cenk 6y ago
  Will do, thank you for mentioning it
m-p-3 6y ago
I wish we had the same thing but for music. I have friends subscribed to Apple Music, GPM/YouTube Music, Spotify, Deezer, Amazon Prime Music. If only I could send them a link to a specific song, artist or album and have it open in the platform of their choice without having to search.
- Cenk 6y ago
  There’s this: https://lnk.to/elif https://lnk.to/elif I’ve seen artists use it a lot to link to music platforms from YouTube or other social media channels.

88 points by Cenk 6y ago

Cenk 6y ago

Hello HN! A couple of months ago I got frustrated with always having to copy and paste the titles of books posted on Twitter to find them on my local Amazon, since authors usually only post the US Amazon link. I also want to add books to my Goodreads to-read bookshelf, so I have to search for it there too. So I built something that could solve this problem! https://boook.link https://boook.link is a web-based tool for creating one single link / landing page for a book, so your readers can choose from which store to buy your book. It also automatically converts the Amazon link to the reader’s local Amazon store. Take a look at a couple examples: https://boook.link/Severance https://boook.link/Severance https://boook.link/Fleishman https://boook.link/Fleishman https://boook.link/TheIdiot https://boook.link/TheIdiot https://boook.link/Sourdough https://boook.link/Sourdough Here’s how it works: 1. Copy and paste your books ISBN 2. We automatically fetch all the information for your book 3. We generate links to all major book retailers 4. Customize any links you want, add your personal website and Twitter account 5. Get a cool shortlink like https://boook.link/Sourdough https://boook.link/Sourdough 6. Make your readers happy and increase your sales Right now we automatically support the following stores: Amazon IndieBound Bookshop.org Apple Books Google Play Books Barnes & Noble Abe Books Book Depository Alibris Indigo Better World Books WorldCat (for local libraries) GoodReads For Amazon we can also add your affiliate tag automatically for each country. There’s also a built-in automatic Amazon link converter (similar to what geniuslink does) if you run a website with a large amount of Amazon links and want to convert them for your visitors automatically.

replies-to-fool 6y ago
This looks really cool! Would you consider adding support for embedding this as a widget? This will make it easier to integrate on author's websites.
electriclove 6y ago
Are you able to pull prices into that page too? Almost like BestBookBuys from back in the day :)
misterpriest 6y ago
Looks great! Can you add the option to not automatically convert to local amazon? I have all my books on the US amazon and still use it rather than converting to the Australian one (which I don’t want to do). Maybe add a chrome extension so I can click a link to the Goodreads page while I’m on the amazon page?

techaddict009 6y ago

What is difference between this and books2read? example: https://books2read.com/taming-fire https://books2read.com/taming-fire ?

Cenk 6y ago
It’s pretty similar in functionality. I’ve never seen an author post a books2read link though. I hope boook.link can break through to the main stream and become the lnk.to of the book world, thanks to our better design and focus on usability.

teddyh 6y ago

Wikipedia’s solution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources?isbn=0-931137-07-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources?isbn=0-931...

ggop 6y ago

Australians can use https://booko.com.au https://booko.com.au and it includes prices as well.

exidy 6y ago
Not just Australians.
- ggop 6y ago
  Hah, never noticed the flag at the top.
dkam 6y ago
I built this to learn Rails in 2007. You can use https://booko.info/ https://booko.info/ if you want to type 2 less characters and aren't in Australia. Also, if you use DuckDuckGo you can type !booko A Series of Unfortunate Events and be taken right to the search results.
- ggop 6y ago
  Thanks for building this service, never knew it was that old.

javajosh 6y ago

I just post the alibris link because if they really want to buy it on amazon they can type the title again. :)

riboflavin 6y ago

Kind of reminds me of https://plinkhq.com/ https://plinkhq.com/, but for books. (Not exactly, but close.) I wonder how many other types of media / physical goods this sort of service could be useful for?

quickthrower2 6y ago

Would be good if it showed the price for each store.

choward 6y ago

> Create a link that lets your readers choose which store to buy your book from You're not really buying the book of DRM is involved. Could you provide a way to only show non-DRM results?

bryan2 6y ago

Great app: Have you considered adding biblio?

Cenk 6y ago
Will do, thank you for mentioning it

m-p-3 6y ago

I wish we had the same thing but for music. I have friends subscribed to Apple Music, GPM/YouTube Music, Spotify, Deezer, Amazon Prime Music. If only I could send them a link to a specific song, artist or album and have it open in the platform of their choice without having to search.

Cenk 6y ago
There’s this: https://lnk.to/elif https://lnk.to/elif I’ve seen artists use it a lot to link to music platforms from YouTube or other social media channels.