Welcome to BukuTip

Hello, I'm Zaim, a broke freelance web developer who love cheap books. Welcome to the official weblog for BukuTip, a web app that I built that can search and compare book prices in Malaysia. As the first post, I'd like to introduce BukuTip.

First, a preamble - why I built BukuTip. The reason is simple: I like books and I am broke. Whenever I browse a bookstore and see a book I'm interested in, one question comes to mind: "can I get this book cheaper, somewhere else?" Hence, BukuTip was built.

It currently searches for the book price from MPH, Kinokuniya and Times Bookstores. It also searches BookXcess and Mudah.my which have cheaper prices (most probably) but with lesser book titles to search from.

The best way to look for a book in BukuTip is to use it's ISBN (also known as EAN-13) number, you can find this number at the back of the book at the top of it's barcode. It is the 13-digit number that usually starts with 978, the "bookland" code. (Search Google Images for some samples)

You can also search using the book's title, author or keywords. When you do this however, the result might include editions of the book published outside of Malaysia and therefore the prices might not be available in local bookstores.

BukuTip is still in beta mode, and you are most welcomed to try it out. Go to http://bukutip.appspot.com/ or use just the search form at the sidebar on the right.

Feedback, suggestions, questions and anything else are most welcomed, just contact me at@zaim on Twitter, or use the BukuTip feedback form.