Bookquery.com is designed as a free price comparison engine for books. It functions as a third party and stands between a book buyer and multiple book sellers in an attempt to ensure that the book buyer gets the best price for a given book.

Bookquery.com is a database driven commercial website. It makes considerable use of web services that implement xml or csv to do data pulls from book sellers to establish book prices. In order to do a price search an isbn is required. Amazon.com's E-Commerce Service (ECS) is implemented to map an isbn to a user's search of an author, title, or keyword. Once the isbn number is known, then each book seller bookquery.com is partnered with is polled in a different manner depending on the technologies provided by the book seller. The results of which are then returned to the user in graphical formatted sorted by price. Links are also provided to transfer a user from bookquery.com to the seller of their choice.

The site was developed with ASP 3.0 and uses Microsoft Access for database requirements.