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But surely this website is comparing the same book. There should be no difference in quality of paper or condition of the book?
by cinntaile 4y ago
But surely this website is comparing the same book. There should be no difference in quality of paper or condition of the book?
- criddell 4y agoThere shouldn't be, but sometimes there is and this is where a vendor's customer service comes into play. I buy 10-15 books every year and almost all of them I order from the same place because they are reliable and provide great customer service when something does go wrong. Books are cheap enough and I don't buy that many so I'm not really very price sensitive.
- lupire 4y agoNot for expensive books (like textbooks) where it is economical to print pirate copies, and where there are cheap international-market prints.
- cinntaile 4y agoInternational market prints have a different ISBN so those shouldn't get mixed up. Pirate copies could be an issue, I have only heard about this issue on Amazon. I'm not sure about other stores? Skipping Amazon is likely sufficient.
- wlonkly 4y agoIt's comparing the same title (roughly, with some errors, but that's expected I think), and returning many editions. Some of those editions might be trade paperbacks, some might be mass-market on newsprint, depending on the book. (One book I searched returned among other things an audiobook on cassette.)