Online Shopping Ireland

Fifty Shades of Grey is the biggest selling books this year - 

Written by EL James’s -  Fifty Shades of Grey has become the fastest adult paperback novel to reach sales of one million print copies.

Fifty Shades of Grey is currently the 32nd bestselling book since records began in 1998.

Amazon said on Tuesday that Fifty Shades of Grey had become the first ebook to sell one million copies for Kindles

The book is described as "Romantic, liberating and totally addictive, Fifty Shades of Grey is a novel that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you for ever."

If you want to buy it online in Ireland and save the possible embarresment of asking for ut in your local bookshop - you can get it here at Amazon .    Fifty Shades of Grey

You may as well order a few other things to bring the order up to £25 - then you can get free delivery. Why not order the whole trilogy for £12.71

Fifty Shades of Grey

Book Depository are running a 24 hour spectacular sale - with upto 80% off 24 books. It starts Thursday 10th Nov at noon. Free delivery on all books to Ireland and UK.

Every hour - for 24 hours - the Book Depository will announce a massive price reduction on a different book - and that price is only available for the hour or until they sell out.
These books are expected to be top selling books - and the demand will be great - so you are advised to set up an account here on Book Depository so you will be able to buy these bargains in a hurry - before someone else gets them. This could be a good chance to buy some bargains for Christmas .

Max 3 books per person. 

Max 3 books per person

The 24 hour sale starts at NOOn on Thursday Nov 10th 2011 . Good Luck.

Where is the cheapest place to buy ebooks in Ireland ?

Maybe you are thinking of buying an e-Reader and you are wondering if the prices of eBooks are cheaper on Amazon or on other online book sites. It would be no good buying an e-reader only  to find that the books it uses cost twice as much as other formats.

We did a quick random comparison of prices for a few ebooks on Easons , Waterstones  and Amazon.   (Prices checked September 2011)

Amazon had the overall lowest prices when the total cost was added up for all ebooks.

Half of  a Yellow Sun
  Waterstones £2.99 (€3.44) Amazon $5.43 (€4) ; Easons €8.73  ;

Room by Emma Donoghue -
  Amazon $5.43 (€4.00) ;    Waterstones - £6.39  (€7.35) ;  Easons €9.11

Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Amazon  $5.23 (€3.90)  ,     Waterstones £6.39 (7.35); Easons €9.11  ,

Brooklyn - Colm Toibin

Waterstones  £3.99 (€4.58)    Amazon $7.29 (€5.41)   Easons - €7.49   

Sister by Rosamund Lupton

Waterstones £4.99 (€5.74)         Amazon $8.34 (€6.19)  Easons €5.99 ; 

Atonement -  Ian Mcewan

Amazon  $8.99 (€6.66) ;    Waterstones £6.67  (€7.67)    Easons €9.49 

59 Seconds by Richard Wiseman

Amazon  $9.08 (€6.75)   ;  Waterstones  £7.19 (€8.26)  ;  Easons  €10.23 ,

Total Prices of all ebooks

Amazon  €36.91
Waterstones  €44.49
Easons  €51.42

Kindle books worked out the cheapest with eBooks from the Easons website coming out as the most expensive.

So - in our small survey we have shown that buying a Kindle will probably not mean you will be paying more for your books. It looks like Kindle users will probably have the lowest priced eBooks.

If you want a Kindle reader and you live in Ireland - you can buy it from Amazon.com.
 

Uk residents - including Northern Ireland can buy Kindles from Amazon UK

If you buy a Kindle - you can only use it to read Kindle format ebooks.
  Irish residents  need to buy their  Kindle books  from Amazon.Com

 

 

The past year or two we have seen a big rise in the popularity of eReaders . Ebook readers such as the Kindle and the Sony Reader will be on many people’s Christmas lists this year . After Christmas many people will be ow looking to buy or download some ebooks to read on their brand new eReader.

If you have a Kindle reader from Amazon - then you are tied to getting your ebooks in Kindle format - which are only available from Amazon.  The Kindle will not read other formats and Kindle format books cannot be read on other e-Readers. you can’t buy Kindle books unless you have a Kindle reader registered to your Amazon account. Irish residents must buy Kindles and Kindle Books from Amazon.Com not Amazon UK because of copyright and publishing rules.

Irish residents can also buy the Kindle online at Viking Direct - with free next day delivery anywhere in Ireland.

Other ebook readers can cope with various formats of e-books that are more widely available to purchase and download - the most common ones are Epub and PDF

Book Depository no longer sell ebooks -

Waterstones online bookshop also sell ebooks - and they are available for Irish residents too.

You would expect the prices of ebooks to be cheaper than those of printed books - and usually they are - but we have seen a few examples of ebooks being more expensive than the same  printed book from the same website!

If you spend over £25 pounds on one order at Amazon - you can now get Super Saver delivery - ie. free delivery to Ireland. Delivery charges for a single book are normally  £4.98 - so this represents a serious saving on larger orders.
See what you can buy at Amazon now. They deliver almost everything to Ireland now - apart from TVs and childrens clothes
Amazon’s cheap prices were often cancelled out by delivery charges to Ireland - but now we can get the same great deals as UK customers. (They still have to add on the extra Irish VAT though - which is about another 5% on all prices.).
NB: Make sure the seller is shown as Amazon UK - because other sellers are allowed to sell on Amazon - but most don’t deliver to Ireland

 

It has got to be the online shopping news of 2009 for Irish residents. Amazon  have (quietly) started shipping all products to Ireland. Up to now we could only get Cds DVDs and Books from Amazon  - but as from April 2009 you can buy Games Consoles, , Cameras, Laptops, Camcorders, Tools, Clothes, Electronics , Video Games, Lawnmowers - basically anything.
I tried it - and there were none of the usual "there is a problem …." message at checkout. So it could be bad news for many other online shops that are priced in Euros and deliver to Ireland - unless they start droopping prices.

It will be interesting to see how Amazon cater for the large amount of Irish customers that will be ordering large items . Delivery charges are quite good - for example for large electronic items the charge is £6.98 for the first item in an order plus £1.99 for each item after that.  Get over to Amazon now to see the bargains before they change their mind!

Note: There are still some items that cannot be delivered to Ireland by Amazon.ie : Televisions, Childrens Clothes, Car Seats, Blank DVDs/Cds  Light Bulbs, Medicines, Mobile Phones.
Also - some items on Amazon are sold by other sellers - be aware that most of the other sellers don’t deliver to Ireland.

If you want to buy a TV online in Ireland try  Electrical Experience - Delivery starts at £39.99 but prices are good.

You could also try Pixmania and Komplett for a good range of LCD and Plasma Screen Televisions with delivery to Ireland.

April 7, 2009