What: 2008 Web 2.0 Award Winners
Award Winner Spotlight: Biblio.com
Award: 2nd Place in the "Books" Category
Likes:
- Easy search interface
- 50 million used and rare books in database
- Searchable by ISBN
- Lists book prices by price and vendor
- Browse book section with several helpful search categories
- Book vendors searchable by state/country/name
- Extensive llisting of rare books and collectibles links
- Numerous options for searching textbooks
- Free account set up and "shopping cart" shopping
Dislikes:
- Not many
- Unlike alibris.com, no music and/or movies available
Useful Features:
- Booksearch, Browsebooks, Booksellers, Rare Books, Textbooks tabs across top
- Wide variety of search categories within each tab
- Shopping Cart
- Search options
- Site map
- Community forum link
- About page
Application in a Library Setting:
- Ideal as a place for libraries to sell weeded books of sufficient value
- Good tool to determine value of books in collection
- An excellent search tool for rare books and collectibles
- Potential for networking through the community forum
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