Even as eBook sales soar, the experience of browsing and buying eBooks still leaves a lot to be desired. If you are more interested in a particular title than in your loyalty to a particular eReader, looking for the cheapest version – or even an available version – of a book can be pretty tedious.
Is it even in the iBookstore? Is it cheaper on Amazon’s Kindle or on the Barnes & Noble Nook?
Leatherbound addresses that problem by giving users a site where they can look for titles and compare their prices for Kindle, Nook, and iBook. Enter an author name or title, and the site responds with price, availability, and a link to the appropriate eBookstore. Quick and simple.
Leatherbound was created this weekend as part of the Rails Rumble, a programming competition that gives teams 48 hours to build a web app in Ruby on Rails.
Team Leatherbound is comprised of Andrew Dumont, Nathan Carnes, Adrian Pike, and Amiel Martin. Dumont, who is also the Director of Business Development at Seesmic, says that the team has plans down the road to add movies and music to the apps’ search capabilities. However, as judging for the Rails Rumble competition is going on now, the project has to stay “as is.”
But for a weekend project, Leatherbound’s “as is” is pretty good.
