List of Philippine Online Bookstores

Reading has been one of my luxuries. I am the one who browse bookstores and take off with a number of books after several hours. I gave up Farmville and Cafe World but I will never give up my love of books. I'm from Bataan so I'm not really capable of visiting a National Bookstore or Powerbooks branch every now and then. But I visit 2 BookSale branches (Vetaf's and Pandayan) here in our province.

BookSale (booksale.com.ph) offers wide variety of hard-to-find copies for a fraction of the price because they sell pre-read books. I don't mind reading used books. In fact, I feel smarter whenever I buy something decent for less than a hundred pesos. I acquired a trade paperback copy of Memoirs of a Geisha for P50, a first edition of The Cider House Rules for P75 and recently, a hardbound Angela's Ashes for P150, all in immaculate conditions.

But not all books are available there, sometimes, I have to purchase books from some Multiply online sellers. Favorite sites include:

http://lifeisabookpage.multiply.com
http://bookcity.multiply.com
http://paperbacknation.multiply.com
http://rvaus.multiply.com

If you want something new and something recent, you can search Philippines' leading bookstores like:

http://www.nationalbookstores.com.ph
http://www.powerbooks.com.ph
http://www.adifferentbookstore.com
http://www.fullybookedonline.com

My recent online book purchase was with National Bookstore. I'm planning to buy a book from Fully Booked through Tradeport AND I am yet to pay some reserved books from Life is a Bookpage. Seems like I'm having a broke summer but will read aplenty! Happy book-hunting!

Got The Updated Air21 Rates!

As a newbie in terms of online shopping/selling thru Multiply (airbrushed shirts, anyone?), I'm not really familiar of the shipping rates. But I found out that many online sellers/buyers prefer their items be shipped by Air21, maybe because Air21 rate is much cheaper than LBC.

To understand more about the rate scale,delivery zones, and the rates for their Sulight Pouches and Boxes, Hebigat box, and Bigahe, I contacted Air21. This is the 2nd time I emailed them and as always, their reply is present in my inbox the next day. They emailed me some files containing the rates and rate scale and more info about Air21. unfortunately, I cannot share with you the whole updated Air21 Rates because of this reason:

"The information transmitted through this mail is intended solely for the person or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, disclosure, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system."

Yep. For me, it just means that I'm not allowed to share the whole thing with you. If you want information about Air21 rates, please visit their site at www.air21.com.ph and email them yourself or call Air21 Hotline Number (02) 854 2100. And thank you to Mr. Edwin R. Reyes for continually answering my sometimes senseless questions. =)