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eBookstore roundup: finding the best deals (continued)
At eBookMall, Cell is $16.99 for PDF/Microsoft Reader/eReader and $14.99 for Mobipocket, The Diana Chronicles is not available.
OUR RATING: 3 of 5
Etext Center at the University of Virginia
The University of Virginia's Etext Center has two thousand ebooks, all free, in Microsoft Reader and eReader format, and thousands more available only in HTML format. These books are nearly all literary classics, so if you're looking for the latest novel you won't find it here. Still, there are some wonderful old books here, and the formatting, while not fancy, is clean and readable.
Neither Cell nor The Diana Chronicles was available here, but a ton of great free stuff was.
OUR RATING: 4 of 5
Final shootout
So which of these online stores had the best deal. Let's look at them all side-by-side in Table A:
| Store |
Format |
Cell |
Diana |
| eReader.com |
eReader |
$8.99 |
$17.95 |
| Fictionwise |
Microsoft Reader, Mobipocket, eReader, and PDF |
$16.99 |
$17.95 |
| BooksOnBoard |
Microsoft Reader, eReader, and PDF |
$7.01 |
$14.00 |
| BooksOnBoard |
Mobipocket |
$13.42 |
$14.00 |
| eBooks.com |
Microsoft Reader, Mobipocket, and PDF |
$8.99 |
$17.99 |
| MobiPocket |
Mobipocket |
$16.99 |
$17.95 |
| ebooks.Palm.com |
eReader |
$8.99 |
$17.95 |
| eBookMall |
Microsoft Reader, eReader, and PDF |
$16.99 |
N/A |
| eBookMall |
Mobipocket |
$14.99 |
N/A |
| Etext Center |
Microsoft Reader, eReader, HTML |
N/A |
N/A |
As you can see, the price for Cell varies widely, where there's somewhat less fluctuation for The Diana Chronicles. BooksOnBoard had the lowest price for Cell, at $7.01, compared to the highest price of $16.99 at a variety of stores.
Clearly, if you're looking for the best price, it pays to shop around. We recommend visiting BooksOnBoard and eBooks.com for what will likely be the best price. The other shops are also fine, but you're likely to spend more.
Why not choose an eBook or two and give it a try?
For more than 20 years, David Gewirtz, the author of Where Have All The Emails Gone? and The Flexible Enterprise, has analyzed current, historical, and emerging issues relating to technology, competitiveness, and policy. David is the Editor-in-Chief of the ZATZ magazines, is the Cyberterrorism Advisor for the International Association for Counterterrorism and Security Professionals, and is a member of the instructional faculty at the University of California, Berkeley extension. He can be reached at david@zatz.com.
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