Website Book Selling Comparison
Essay title: Website Book Selling Comparison
Website Book Selling Comparison
Many commercial websites today offer a multitude of books for any reader to absorb in their lifetime. Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com are two of the largest websites on the internet. Between these two websites there are a few million books sold worldwide every year. I have chosen ten books from the New York Times bestseller list. I chose the top five for fiction and the top five for nonfiction hardcover books.
Title
Author
Amazon.com
BarnesandNoble.com
THE DA VINCI CODE
Dan Brown
$14.97
$14.97
MURDER LIST
Julie Garwood
$17.65
$18.16
THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN
Mitch Albom
$11.97
$11.97
WHITE HOT
Sandra Brown
$17.65
$18.16
ANGELS & DEMONS
Dan Brown
$5.59
$5.59
UNFIT FOR COMMAND
John E. ONeill and Jerome R. Corsi
$16.77
$16.77
AMERICAN SOLDIER
Tommy Franks with Malcolm McConnell
$16.77
$16.77
MY LIFE
Bill Clinton
$21.00
$21.00
BUSHWORLD
Maureen Dowd
$15.57
$15.57
SKYWRITING
Jane Pauley
$15.57
$15.57
Total Cost
$153.51
$154.53
As you can see in the chart above, the two websites are very close in pricing. The larger website Amazon.com edges the other website by only $1.02. The majority of books on both websites are offered at forty percent off the list price. Amazon.com is affiliated with Borders bookstore in the Maryland area. If you prefer to pick your book up in the store it will increase the price substantially. BarnesandNoble.com has stores nationwide but the discounts are not as deep in the store. Shipping on both sites is free when the order goes over twenty-five dollars, but is limited to standard delivery time. The standard delivery time for BarnesandNoble.com is three to eight business days. Amazon.com calls their standard delivery super saver shipping which takes five to nine business days. I think that Amazon has a small edge in price but BarnesandNoble.com has the edge as far as faster free shipping. Using the free shipping saved me $12.90 on both websites.
Navigating the websites