Your best source for finding audio books, school text books, fiction, non-fiction and other types of books is the internet. Online stores offer a wide variety of books which retail stores find difficult to match. Both types of books – old and new are available online at a much discounted price.

Some of the advantages are as follows:

• Some online sites carry feedbacks given by users. This will help you to gauge if it’s really worth to buy the particular book.

• If you purchase book online, many online merchants offer free shipping. This means the books will be delivered to your doorstep at no extra cost.

• Authors are allowed to publish their work on some sites without the intervention of a publisher.

• Instant delivery is offered by many online bookstores. This means you can download books onto your devices like Kindle or PDA or computer.

• You can buy a variety of products from online retail giants. One such giant is Amazon. Amazon offers free shipping if your order crosses $25. Apart from selling new books, Amazon sells used books. They also offer to buy back books once you no longer require them. If you purchase a range of products from them; it’s possible to club your purchase and have them all shipped at one go thus saving your shipping charges.

• If you don’t like to buy books online, you could bid for books. eBay is famous for this. At this site you can bid for new and used books, and that too only for a few dollars. Even the shipping charges are nominal, if not free.

• Some books which need to be paid for are sometimes available for free over the internet. Works of some famous authors can also be easily be found online. Google book search or Project Gutenberg are some sites where you can get classic non-fiction books.  

Apart from the above two mentioned online giants, there are many other online stores who specialize in different types of books. Some sites specialize only in used college text books, some in different languages and some tend only to a local market.

Rare books or out-of- print books are easier to hunt online as there are many online retailers who can assist in this search.

Make use of the search engine to look out for your book and you are sure to find. Hunt around a bit, and you would surly get a good deal. So in the end it make ideal to switch to online purchase as compared to visit to the local book store.