Ever wondered if you’re getting the best deal on that paperback?

Or maybe you’re looking to declutter your shelves and make some extra cash?

BookScouter’s ISBN scanner app is about to become your new best friend!

How The BookScouter ISBN Scanner App Works

BookScouter is a book price comparison app that helps you buy, rent, and sell books at the best prices. You perform a single search and get offers from all popular online bookstores or buyback vendors compared on one page in real time.

Why Choose the BookScouter App for Book Pricing Comparison?

Students can find the best textbook purchase and rental deals for the coming semester or sell their books back much more profitably than at a campus bookstore.

Actually, the app is not just about textbooks.

You can sell any used book with resale value, including those you no longer need or those you bought in thrift stores or garage sales. That’s what some BookScouter users do—run a business or side hustle on book reselling.

Feel free to read more about flipping books for profit or book scouting:

the top 3 platforms where to sell books for money

the top 10 questions about starting a used book selling business

different business models

where to find books to sell

where to get used books for free

By the way, by contributing to sustainable living instead of throwing used books away, you give them a second life.

Book Barcode Scanner App Brings You The Best Buyback Deals In Seconds

You can check out the best buyback price for any book you have in your hands – textbooks you no longer need, books at a thrift store or garage sale, books someone wants to donate, trash, or recycle.

There is no typing required. You just scan the book barcode or ISBN, and that’s it!

All buyback offers from 20+ online vendors are compared for you on one page, with the best deals on top.

Buy Books For Less with the BookScouter App

Did you know that the average student can save up to 50% on textbook purchases by comparing prices? That’s right—and we’re here to help you join the savvy students’ club.

Whether you’re a casual reader or a serious collector, don’t let another great deal on a book you plan to buy slip through your fingers.

Download the BookScouter app today and join thousands of savvy book lovers who are comparing prices and saving money every day. Your next great read (at the best price) is just one search away!

Install FREE BookScouter App & Try It!

Next time you want to buy books or textbooks, declutter your shelves, or simply make extra cash selling things you no longer need, let the BookScouter app bring you the best deals!

BookScouter is a book price comparison platform where you get the most up-to-date information on where to sell, buy, and rent used books at the best prices. It is also a tool that makes selling and buying processes simple and straightforward by quickly referring you to the best vendor.

In this guide, we’ll closely look at how you can use BookScouter to buy books and textbooks for your studies and search for the vendor with the best offer and the highest rating.

Search Options

To search for the vendors with the best Buy offers, use the BookScouter website:

Or you can install and use the ISBN / book barcode scanner app fom BookScouter (iOS or Android):

How to Buy a Book: Step-by-Step Guide

In this manual, we’ll guide you through the steps of finding the book you need with the help of BookScouter, finding the best vendor offers, comparing prices, vendor ratings, and other factors. For instance, if you are a college student searching for Airport Planning & Management, Seventh Edition by Seth Young and Alexander Wells, here is what you can do.

Search by ISBN

First of all, use search by ISBN (feel free to read our article to discover what is an ISBN). You find the book’s 10- or 13-digit ISBN and enter it in the BookScouter’s search field, then click Scout:

Check The Offers

After you’ve entered the 13-digit ISBN (for instance) for Airport Planning & Management, you are transferred to the product page, where you can see all the available offers from various vendors:

The best offer is displayed in the top right corner. For instance, eBay offers Airport Planning & Management at the best price (at the moment of taking the screenshot):

You can also click on the dropdown arrow next to the Buy button and see all the available offers for various conditions from the vendor: New or Used (Like New, Very Good, Good).

Tick The Checkboxes

If you are looking for new books, digital ebooks, or used paperbacks, you can tick the checkboxes in the top left corner of the list.

You can also check the best rental offers for Aircraft Control and Simulation: Dynamics, Controls Design, and Autonomous Systems, just in case:

Search by Title, Author Or Keyword

Search by the title or author also allows you to check the list of books relevant to the topic or the books written by the same author. For instance, you type in “Michael S. Nolan” and get the list of books written by this author:

If you know the title, you will get the exact match: for instance, Fundamentals of Air Traffic Control will be offered to you right away, and you can choose the clear edition you need:

If you don’t have any specific book in mind, typing in a keyword or a phrase will show you all books related to this topic. For instance, here is the list of books BookScouter will offer when you type in “Air traffic regulation.” To find the most appropriate title, sort them by relevance, title, author, or publishing date.

Helpful Features

There’re other features that you can find useful on the page, from a Watchlist to the option of setting a price alert and so much more.

Buy or Rent

If you want to compare what’s better, to buy or to rent, you can check this information from the Buy page by clicking on Rent this Book under the book information or on the Rent banner:

When you click on Rent, you’ll see all rental offers:

Low Price Summary

Low Price Summary displays the best price offer for used, new, and digital book you’re checking out, as well as the best rental offer for a semester. We’ve searched for the best prices for the ISBN you entered, and all you need to do now is to choose what’s suitable for you.

Transparent Shipping Expenses

Once you’ve checkers the best price offers, conveniently check the shipping costs — all in one place. The cheapest offers can have expensive shipping (rare, but it may happen), so you can choose the alternative.

Quick Info Links (Reviews, Find in Library)

If you need more information about the book, you can check Amazon and GoodReads reviews for this book by clicking on Reviews. Besides, clicking on Find in Library will take you to the relevant book page on WorldCat.

Sales Rank and Sellers Quantity

If you’re a professional book reseller and are flipping books for profit, you can benefit from the following features. To get information about Sales Rank, see the lowest price on Amazon and current sellers quantity, you need to log in to your account. If this is the first time you have used BookScouter, feel free to register to access the data.

Watchlist and Price Alerts

One more helpful feature you can use is Watchlist. If the book you’re looking for is too expensive at the moment, or if you’re planning to buy it later (e.g., you’ll need a specific textbook next semester), you can add it to your Watchlist and observe the price fluctuations. A maximum of 20 books can be added to Watchlist.

Also, you can set Price Alerts for the books you don’t want to buy at the moment and want to wait for a better price. It’s very convenient, as once the price matches your set price, we’ll send you a notification by email immediately (and you can buy the book at once).

Other Bindings

If a book is available in several formats, you can see it under the Format category: more formats. E.g., Astronomy: A Beginner’s Guide to the Universe is available in a paperback format:

It’s highly convenient when you need a book — whether hardcover or paperback — you need the best price. Moreover, you can buy an access code for your used book if you already have a book and need an access code. Here is where you can check it on BookScouter:

Buy Your Books in Two Steps

Step 1: Check the best price on BookScouter.com

Once you’ve checked an ISBN for the best offer, and decided to proceed with buying, click Buy on BookScouter:

Step 2: Proceed to the website of the bookseller who offers the best price

Now you are leaving the BookScouter website and will have all the transactions regarding An Introduction to Aircraft Thermal Management on the Textbookx website directly:

Best Buy Books Recommendations

Getting all new books takes work, especially if you need textbooks (which are always pricey, even used ones). Luckily, there is a way out: knowing the best places to buy used books in good condition at low prices.

BookScouter recommendations on how to buy used books, where to find textbooks for free, reviews of the best websites and online bookstores for students and book lovers can be found in the blog and tips sections. We strongly recommend checking the following articles:

• Why Buy Textbooks With BookScouter?
• Top 5 Websites to Buy Cheap Books in 2023
• What to Look for When Buying Your Textbooks
• 33 Websites to Get Free College Textbooks

The Bottom Line

BookScouter collects and compares book pricing data from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors; all the pricing information is updated in real-time.

We understand that buying books can be a challenge; this is especially the case with some costly textbooks. Therefore, with our work, we, first of all, strive to help you find the best offers and make sure you get the books you need with the best price-quality ratio. Our second goal is to streamline the process of finding books; therefore, we constantly update BookScouter’s features, adding something new and improving the existing ones.

We arrange all book offers, taking their shipping into account so that free offers are always displayed on top. We hope that you can refine your textbook buying strategy with the help of Watchlist and Price Alerts. In addition to buying, you can also sell back your books when you no longer need them, and earn money. Check the article on how to sell used books on Bookscouter as well. All in all, you can rely entirely on BookScouter when looking for affordable textbooks to buy, and best offers from buyback vendors to whom you can sell your books when you don’t need them anymore. ]]> https://bsblog.wpenginepowered.com/why-buy-textbooks-with-bookscouter/ Tue, 12 Jul 2022 09:13:22 +0000 https://bsblog.wpenginepowered.com/?p=3118

What is the most shocking and irritating thing for students when they get into college and start preparing for the beginning of the semester? Textbook prices, plain and simple. Students visit college bookstores only to see inscrutably high prices. No wonder it’s tough to afford the requisite textbooks no matter how great your zeal for grasping new knowledge is.

BookScouter stands by you, students, and fully shares your concerns. That’s why we’ve decided to find out how much money a student can save when opting for BookScouter to buy cheap textbooks online at the best price instead of simply going to a popular bookstore.

For our “experiment” we’ve chosen the Michigan School of Psychology (MSP) and examined the list of textbooks required for the 3rd semester of 2021-2022.

Below you’ll find the table demonstrating the best price for each textbook ISBN found among 20+ BookScouter’s partner bookstores in one column and the price offered by Barnes&Noble bookstore in the other one.

Spoiler: you can save $600 and more each semester when buying textbooks using BookScouter!

Don’t think it’s true? Try to thoroughly study this table by yourself to realize that the difference is tangible.

ISBN	Condition	Go buy at B&N	Shop with BookScouter	Saving
9781848726673	New	$120.00	$75.97	$44.03
9780134419701	New	$236.75*	$89.46	$147.29
9780465061716	New	$15.99	$8.68	$7.31
9780143127741	New	$16.99	$11.40	$5.59
9781118980873	New	$57.25	$26.99	$30.26
9780470028988	New	$69.75	$37.58	$32.17
9781544362717	New	$110.00	$83.54	$26.46
9781541617575	New	$75.00	$47.74	$27.26
9781483340081	New	$90.00	$52.99	$37.01
9780815395836	New	$42.95	$33.43	$9.52
9781576759448	New	$19.49	$11.75	$7.74
9781483344614	New	$65.00	$36.95	$28.05
9780134752556	New	$139.99	$59.00	$80.99
9780786886548	New	$21.99	$14.95	$7.04
9780816669660	New	$75.00	$62.42	$12.58
9781119258889	New	$136.95	$105.29	$31.66
9781119804291	New	$71.75	$44.00	$27.75
9780190635596	New	$140.00	$108.77	$31.23
9781462544196	New	$62.00	$23.85	$38.15
9781609189907	New	$31.99**	$32.87	$-0.88
9781119167150	New	$49.95	$38.47	$11.48
TOTAL		$1648.79	$1006.1	$642.69

* –  Sun Devil Campus Store price added since the book is not available at B&N
**- Walmart price added since the book is not available at B&N
Note: Prices in the table are on the day of blogpost publication.

The simple truth is that you need to be smart not only in your studies but also in your life. Being in the habit of shopping around may result in significant savings. You can spend the money saved on something from your wish list. Moreover, one more benefit is that you can partially clear student-loan debts with that sum.

We at BookScouter strive to help you save money comparing prices and we take great pride in this mission. We encourage you to read BookScouter reviews to see how we have helped other students save money on their textbooks. ]]> https://bsblog.wpenginepowered.com/introducing-the-bookscouter-search-widget/ Thu, 12 May 2022 12:55:49 +0000 https://bsblog.wpenginepowered.com/?p=2708

Affiliate marketers, bloggers, influencers, and BookScouter brand advocates, this blog post is for you! If you’ve been contemplating more effective ways to generate an affiliate income, we’ve got news for you. Our BookScouter Search Box Widget is finally here!

Why is it great news? By adding our search widget to your media channel, you’ll get an opportunity to increase the quality of your content and get a commission from BookScouter. Here is how: if you are writing a book review, your readers might get interested and would like to know the best price for the book. Therefore, they will find it quite convenient to be able to use the BookScouter search box right here and now. In the end, they get the information; you get conversions and affiliate income.

BookScouter is a well-known book price comparison platform where millions of searches are performed every day. We are positive that our Search Box Widget will be a great addition to your blog about books or any website or platform with a book-loving, enthusiastic reading audience.

Introducing the BookScouter Search Box Widget

The BookScouter Search Box Widget is now available to all affiliate members and everyone who wants to add a valuable feature to their media channel.

Benefits for Your Audience

You give your audience the freedom to search for books quickly and efficiently. Once you add a search box to your blog or website, your users will be able to search for book prices right from your blog or website. They enter a book’s ISBN, author, or title in the search box’s search field, click on Search, and get transferred to BookScouter.

Currently, users are transferred to the SELL page where the best buyback price is displayed, but in the nearest future, it will be a page with relevant search results where both BUY and SELL top offers are featured. We’ll implement it into the widget as soon as it’s launched. As for now, the user has an option to navigate between SELL, BUY, and RENT results by clicking on the corresponding tabs or links leading to alternative book pricing information.

Benefits for You

While affiliate links to the main page are traditionally effective, you can get higher user conversion rates due to search relevance and user interaction. Besides, you can keep everything under control: from tracking all the searches and analyzing user activity to planning ways to generate more traffic with different widget placement options. With this widget, you will gain a lot more than you can imagine, as it makes affiliate marketing much more effective.

BookScouter Search Box Widget Features

The BookScouter Search Box may look like your average banner; however, there is much more to it than meets the eye:

• Efficiency: Search relevance and user interaction help you increase user conversion rate.
• Convenience: The Search Box widget is easy to embed into your blog or website; you don’t need to have any specific coding knowledge.
• Customization: You can experiment with widget placement and choose between two visualization options.
• Preview: You can see what the widget will look like on your blog or website page before publishing it.
• Search tracking: With your affiliate ID, you can track all the searches and analyze the widget’s effectiveness.

How to Implement

1. Go to the BookScouter Search Box Widget page.
2. If you are a member of the BookScouter Affiliate Program, enter your affiliate ID and Company Name (you can find both in the Affiliate Center on LinkTrust). 
3. If you’re not a BookScouter affiliate yet, feel free to apply or just use the search box without an affiliate link.
4. Now you can customize the search box and preview its layout before publishing.
5. When you’re done, click on the “Copy Code” button to copy the code and embed it on your website.

Where to Use the Widget

• If you run a personal blog dedicated to books and reading, you can place the widget on a sidebar so that it can be visible and accessible from any page. The same applies to any other media channel with relevant content: a website, a platform, etc. 
• If your blog covers topics not directly related to books, but you are writing a post on a relevant topic, you can insert the widget directly into the page. By doing so, you help your readers search for the books you may be referring to easier and faster.

Track Performance

We are positive that the BookScouter Search Box Widget is exactly what you and your audience needs. Not only will you provide value to your readers, but you will also generate more affiliate revenue.

You can track everything from your affiliate account on LinkTrust:

1. Log in to your affiliate account. 
2. Go to “Reports” and select “Campaign Performance.”
3. Check your ad campaign report.
4. You can also check other reports (e.g., Daily Breakout, etc.).

Get BookScouter Search Box Widget Now!

Сheck our Search Box Widget right away! If you aren’t our affiliate yet, it’s time to become one! At BookScouter, we do our best to be always helpful to both our users and affiliates, and we are sure that the widget will become a tool that will serve its purpose brilliantly!

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Not so long ago, we had a website redesign, and we are happy to share another piece of great news with you! We are excited to announce an update to BookScouter Affiliate Program: we’ve launched a web page with the program details for potential members and implemented a few additional promotional options for affiliates.

In this article, we’re covering all Q&As regarding our affiliate program and what’s new.

What Is an Affiliate?

An affiliate is someone who earns a commission by promoting products or services made by another person or company. Nowadays, affiliate marketing mostly takes place online.

How Does BookScouter Affiliate Program Work?

The mechanics behind earning with the BookScouter Affiliate marketing program is simple and straightforward. You have a website, blog, or another media channel with loads of traffic. We help you monetize this traffic.

All you have to do is share affiliate links to BookScouter with your audience. The more conversions you have, the more you earn.

After we review and approve your application, you get your affiliate ID and access to your personal account on LinkTrust affiliate software platform, where you can

• Analyze traffic data 
• Utilize various creatives (e.g., banners) for promotion
• Connect with a personal manager

How to Become a BookScouter Affiliate?

If you are an avid reader and an enthusiastic blogger who writes about books, have an Instagram account where you share book reviews, run an online shop or platform with a similar target audience, or are a library or private school representative working for the marketing department, we welcome you to participate in our affiliate program! 

As a price comparison platform with a focus on books, we prefer to have affiliate partners with related content; however, we are also interested in trusted blogs or websites with unrelated but high-quality and valuable content.

We have high standards, so we do not partner with any resources with questionable content or mass marketing media. We don’t do paid advertising, and we only work with U.S. blogs and websites.

To become a BookScouter affiliate, you need to follow a few simple steps:

1. Apply via Typeform and answer a few questions that help us understand your business model better, evaluate traffic potential, and see how you plan to promote BookScouter.
2. Wait for your application to be approved.
3. Get your affiliate ID and LinkTrust account and start generating referral links.
4. Watch how the links work and you earn!

How Much Do Affiliates Earn?

Our rate of $1 per conversion, and our average BookScouter affiliate earns about $500 and more a month. All in all, the income you will receive will be proportional to the volume of sales and purchases generated by the traffic you send to our domain. So, the sky is the limit, right? Our affiliates get payments on or about the 15th of every month for the previous month.

What’s New in BookScouter Affiliate Program?

We’ve launched a landing page where you can find exhaustive information about our affiliate program—BookScouter Affiliate Program.

Also, our affiliate partners will have access to freshly updated creatives and three new banner sets they can use in the promotion campaigns:

Finally, the BookScouter Search Widget will be available to all affiliates very soon—it can be added anywhere on a blog or website, and it helps search for book prices fast. Users will be able to check purchase and buyback prices by entering a book’s ISBN, author, or title right on your website. And when they click the Search button, they will be transferred directly to the page with relevant search results on BookScouter. You’ll get higher conversion rates due to search relevance and user interaction. Moreover, you’ll be able to track all the searches with your affiliate ID, analyze your activity, and experiment with widget placement options to find ways to generate more traffic!

Become BookScouter Affiliate!

Now that you know all the details, it’s time to send us your application. Become our affiliate and start earning! Let your blog about books become a place where you can earn, not just write about books for fun. We are sure that it will be a fruitful collaboration where everyone wins!

BookScouter is a book price comparison platform that helps you find where to sell, buy, and rent used books at the best prices and makes this process easy by quickly searching all the vendor websites for you. That’s why it is the easiest and most convenient place to sell books.

In this guide, we’ll closely look at how you use BookScouter when you want to sell your books and need to find the vendor with the most beneficial offer.

• Search Options
• How to Sell a Book: Step by Step Guide
• Selling to a Vendor
• Pro Tools
• Become a Real Book Scout

Search Options

To find and compare vendor offers for the book you plan to sell, you can use the BookScouter website:

Or you can install and use the BookScouter app (iOS or Android):

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How to Sell a Book: Step by Step Guide

In this manual, we’ll try to find the best way to sell engineering textbooks, say, Structural Engineering for Architects: A Handbook by William McLean, Peter Silver, Peter Evans via the BookScouter website.

Search by ISBN

First of all, use search by ISBN. You find the book’s 10- or 13-digit ISBN and enter it in the BookScouter’s search field, then click Scout:

Next, you are transferred to the product page where you can see all the available offers from various vendors:

The best buyback offer is displayed in the top right corner (in our example, TextbookRush has the best buyback offer for Structural Engineering for Architects: A Handbook):

You can also see the minimal buyback price set by this vendor and decide if it works for you. For instance, if you want to sell only one book that doesn’t cover this amount, you can check offers from other vendors; perhaps they offer less for the book but have a lower minimal buyback limit.

You can also check the offers from other vendors that give coupons:

Search by Title or Author

If you search by the title or author, you also get a list of the books that are somehow relevant to the topic or the books written by the same author. Perhaps, you have other books that you want to sell, so you can see the sell prices from vendors for them as well. You can sort them by relevance, title, author, or date of publishing for more convenience:

Multiple ISBN Search

Going back to search options, you can also use the Add multiple ISBNs feature if you have several books you want to sell and don’t want to search for them one by one:

Here is how you can see the buyback information from various vendors in case you add two more ISBNs to your search:

Other Features

You can also add the books you’re interested in to Watchlist and check their pricing history. However, to do so, you need to log in to your account. If this is the first time you are using BookScounter, you need to register.

After you log in, you can access the book’s pricing history:

As a regular user, you can check the price changes for the past three months: the average price and the maximum price for this period. This information can be quite useful if you are not in a hurry to sell; after analyzing the price changes and the potential, you can decide to wait for a higher price offer.

Selling to a Vendor

Before you decide on the vendor, you can also visit the Vendors page and compare vendors’ ratings. You can also consider choosing a vendor depending on your purpose (preferred sell vendors, normal vendors, and online bookstores):

Next, you can click on the vendor and check its description and user feedback:

Finally, if the vendor rating and feedback are fine, the price offer is good, and are ready to proceed with selling, click Sell. You will be transferred to the vendor’s website:

Now you are leaving the BookScouter website and will have all the transactions regarding Architect’s Handbook of Construction Detailing on the TextbookManiac website directly:

Depending on the vendor and their shipping terms, you will be requested to either pay for the shipping or not.

Pro Tools

If you want to access full buyback pricing history as well as several other powerful features, you can sign up for the BookScouter Pro Tools, which is ideal if you want to maximize your profits from selling books.

The price of the Pro Tools subscription is $29.99/month. New Pro users can try the Pro tools for 14 days (14-day money-back guarantee). If, after 14 days, you decide to terminate the subscription, you get a refund.

Here is what your full pricing history access (results from all vendors and the maximum price found on each day) will look like for Simplified Engineering for Architects and Builders (the data is available up to 01/19/16):

With the Pro Tools access, you can also use Bulk Liquidation Tool that allows you to look up 10,000 ISBNs per day (either uploaded as a CSV file or entered manually) and remove your excess book inventory at the desired price for you (by setting a “target price” and getting  matching buyback offers):

And you can access High Resale Value Books  (recently searched above a certain value for up to the last 14 days) to understand what is more profitable to sell:

If you are a professional book scout, you will also benefit from checking the information about the best Hot Flip Deals. You can see the information about buy and sell offers and get email notifications for new deals:

Pro Tools allow you to see where you can potentially buy a book at a lower price and sell it with a profit:

Become a Real Book Scout

If you’ve already tried book scouting or are thinking about doing it on a larger scale, you can also read the materials on the BookScouter blog and tips sections. We recommend starting with the following articles:

• The Definitive Guide to Book Scouting
• Retail and Book Arbitrage Explained
• How to Make Money Flipping Books
• Reselling Books: Where to Find Books to Sell

But you are also encouraged to go through all the information on book reselling that you can find on our blog.

The Bottom Line

Helping you find the best prices for the books you want to sell or buy has always been BookScouter’s goal and mission; that is why this platform with more than 30 vendors was created in the first place. We hope that this guide on how to sell your books with the help of BookScouter will be useful to you and enable you to earn extra cash from book-selling fast.

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