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I’ve just added the new coupon codes for February to the Deals page, including one valid today (Feb 01) only – 20% off an ebook from Kobo.

There’s also a new 15% code from CyberRead, and this month’s categories which get a 20% discount from ebooks.com.

Subscribe to http://ebookprice.info/deals/rss to see the new coupon codes on offer.

I’m about to release a new version which will allow you to set personalisation options, such as your country, your preferred currency, which formats you want to see.

I’d like some people to kick the tyres before it goes public, if you’re interested, please get in touch!

So now I can see how it compares to my lovely Sony PRS-505, will post initial thoughts later…

All 5 of the top 5 books on the current “USA Today” bestseller list are available with 100% rebate from Fictionwise (that is, you spend the money with them, and they give it back to you in full as credit to spend on other books).

Do people think of this as “free”? or just very good value?

Looking for your next best-selling ebook?

You can quickly check the prices for all USA Today’s Top 30 Best Selling books in all ebook formats at once.

Kobo has these great discounts available this month.

1. Get $1 off all romance titles – Discount Code: 1Love
2. Get $2 off all self-help titles – Discount Code: NewYou
3. 20% off all other eBook categories – Discount Code: Save20

These offers are valid until January 31.

Note: the coupon is valid for a single book.

eTextbooks make education cheaper, faster and easier. So will this be the next major growth market in the ebook world?

Textbooks season is here – for the next few weeks, students will be scouring the internet for the textbooks they need for the 2010 school season.

And this year, they have more choice than ever before in the way they access course textbooks.

• E-book or print book?
• Online access or download?
• Purchase or rental or borrow?

The difference in cost between an eTextbook and the equivalent print book can be large (one of the major eTextbook providers, CourseSmart, promises savings of up to 50%).

And here’s some other benefits to getting your textbook as an ebook.

eTextbooks can be less expensive to buy or rent.	An ebook can cost significantly less than the print book. And there are often ebook rental options, for example from www.ecampus.com, which bring the cost down still further.
Search is an essential tool.	Searching an eTextbook is far faster and easier than thumbing through a print book’s index.
An eTextbook is accessible anywhere.	With downloaded eTextbooks, you can carry your entire library with you on your own laptop or ebook reader; with online eTextbooks, you can access your library from any computer with an Internet connection.
Easy printing of the sections you need	Why lug the whole textbook with you if you only need a few pages?
Purchase just one chapter	You can often buy just the single chapter of the textbook you need. Why buy the whole book if you don’t need to?
Easy Access to Related Materials	An eTextbook can contain the embedded links to related materials in online libraries and websites that we now take for granted.

I see the eTextbook market as one of the major growth areas for ebooks over the next few years; I predict that 2010 will see a excitable jostling of activity from publishers, hardware vendors and software suppliers; and 2011 will be the year where it really starts to take off.

ebookprice.info now includes the ebooks from today’s leading textbook publishers including Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishing Group, Cengage Learning, CQ Press, Elsevier, F.A. Davis & Company, John Wiley & Sons, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, McGraw Hill Higher Education, Nelson Education, Pearson, Sage Publications, Sinauer Associates, Taylor & Francis, Wolters Kluwer Health

All the prices at a glance for the NYT books of the year available at

A year ago, I bought a Sony PRS-505 ebook reader and very quickly realised that I was going to spend far too much time tracking down books to buy. So I wrote a website to speed things up and the result is this site!