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Read reviews before buying

When you find that book you are looking for, you can pay for it and take it with you. Sit in the car in the parking lot, if you like, and start reading. Also try walking into a bookstore or browse the internet and see different shelves of an online bookseller and you’ll find an extremely confusing arrangement of volumes of different books. How to find the one that’s not worthless?

Over the years, book production has been really growing and progressing. People are buying what they want without considering some important factors. Unfortunately, there were many times that some did not like the book that they bought and it felt like they had wasted their money. They felt cheated.

The problem is that can be hard to tell if a book is for you before you have risked a bunch of money on it. Here are some facts and tips that may help you in making this decision:

• There has been a confusing trend in book marketing. When a popular bookstore arises, many publishers feel their books will be lost on the shelves. This means the publisher feels they need to catch attentions by making very large books. There are more than 1,000 pages long but that have only 400 or 500 pages worth of material. Unfortunately the big page count also leads to big prices.

• Carefully examine big books (and all books) looking for worthless content. Do they really have that many pages of material?

• Other online bookstores provide good discounts. Unfortunately, you cannot check the book carefully before you buy. However, some provides reader comments, ratings and reviews. These can be needed in deciding whether a book is worth buying.

• Consistently average or poor reviews are obviously a bad sign. If 5 readers say a book was terrible and one says it was great, it is probably terrible.

• If you do not like a book, return it right away. Online merchants and your local bookstores value your goodwill more than money. They want you to be happy so you will buy again. If they cannot sell the book to someone else, they will return it to the publisher so they do not lose money.

• I strongly suggest that you visit ProductReview.com.au to read some consumer reviews regarding your favorite books.


These are some of the tips that can help you when buying a book. The decision will still be in your hands and experiences when buying.

Contributed by Sava on March 12, 2008, at 9:19 AM UTC.

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