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Cool concept, but the books I compared were 20-50% higher than Amazon, and they charge another $3.50 to ship in 7-10 days.
Cool concept, but the books I compared were 20-50% higher than Amazon, and they charge another $3.50 to ship in 7-10 days.
Cool concept, but the books I compared were 20-50% higher than Amazon, and they charge another $3.50 to ship in 7-10 days.
And I really don't get it - printed books are commodities. They're the same wherever you get them. Anyone except the author is a middleman. Independent bookshops can't value-add anything except in-person, and even then it's limited to creating a nice environment.
I love my local bookshop, and we're buying from them during the crisis to be delivered, but being honest with myself it's because of the toast they do rather than anything to do with books.
(Doesn't apply to second-hand booksellers.)
So this turns bookstores into super affiliates? Also while sharing a pool of secondary affiliate revenue. I am a heavy user of Amazon's Abebooks. When I buy from there bookstores get 92% of the revenue, and bear the costs. Surely a model like this for new books is better than bookstore.org model?
Did someone really call their bookshop 'Bookshop'? And I really don't get it - printed books are commodities. They're the same wherever you get them. Anyone except the author is a middleman. Independent bookshops can't value-add anything except in-person, and even then it's limited to creating a nice environment. I love my local bookshop, and we're buying from them during the crisis to be delivered, but being honest…
They add protection against monopoly which is dangerous, especially when talking books, to allow in a free society.
They don’t add anything in the narrow context we are usually meaning when we say such.
There’s always another abstraction that says otherwise. And in the case of society, I’d prefer a robust, unmonopolized trade.
But most people don’t think in abstractions, opting for adherence to obvious social norms.
So this turns bookstores into super affiliates? Also while sharing a pool of secondary affiliate revenue. I am a heavy user of Amazon's Abebooks. When I buy from there bookstores get 92% of the revenue, and bear the costs. Surely a model like this for new books is better than bookstore.org model?
Did someone really call their bookshop 'Bookshop'? And I really don't get it - printed books are commodities. They're the same wherever you get them. Anyone except the author is a middleman. Independent bookshops can't value-add anything except in-person, and even then it's limited to creating a nice environment. I love my local bookshop, and we're buying from them during the crisis to be delivered, but being honest…
It’s not true that having independent stores doesn’t value add anything. They add protection against monopoly which is dangerous, especially when talking books, to allow in a free society. They don’t add anything in the narrow context we are usually meaning when we say such. There’s always another abstraction that says otherwise. And in the case of society, I’d prefer a robust, unmonopolized trade. But most people do…
My local bookshop sells the same as I could get in a chain bookshop. The books aren't any different! What's the point?
And anyway you don't need bookshops to disseminate free thought, if that's what you mean. You can do that with a website.
(Doesn't apply to specialist bookshops.)
How does it differ from previous IndieBound efforts?
Update: The changeover to bookstore.org has been postponed to June 1st to direct as much traffic to individual bookstores' websites as possible.
Did someone really call their bookshop 'Bookshop'? And I really don't get it - printed books are commodities. They're the same wherever you get them. Anyone except the author is a middleman. Independent bookshops can't value-add anything except in-person, and even then it's limited to creating a nice environment. I love my local bookshop, and we're buying from them during the crisis to be delivered, but being honest…
You can browse Amazon of course, but for some reason it's still an awful user experience.