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Amazon to close Book Depository online shop

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US mail has been using parcel lockers in new neighborhoods for decades..

Is there any notification via email or SMS? "Decades" suggest that they are just physical lockers that you have to go and manually check for mail. We have these too in rural areas, where delivery to every single farmhouse is too expensive and time-consuming. But modern parcel lockers are different. They are networked computers connected to solenoids that operate door locks. You get a code via mail or SMS when a parce…

Does 1967 count as decades? You decide.

They put a key in your personal mailbox that corresponds to a specific locker. You use the key to open the locker. You cannot remove the key once it’s used to open the locker. I’ve personally used these arrangements since the 1990s.

https://faq.usps.com/s/article/What-is-a-Cluster-Box

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralized_mail_delivery

Re: Amazon to close Book Depository online shop

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Can it reasonably take a month to export the data from Goodreads? I barely use it but from what I recall its basically lists of will-read and have-read right? Is that delay strictly a "cooling off" sort of tactic?

I assume this data export includes much more than just the book data (which I just discovered you can get immediately as CVS via https://www.goodreads.com/review/import ) which might be part of a compliance requirement.

Update: I got an automated email from Goodreads to download this export. It contains a bunch of json files containing user/usage-related data for my account like request logs, newsfeed updates, kindle logins, site settings, etdc.

Re: Amazon to close Book Depository online shop

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From the comments I got: 1. It was a good place to buy English books in non-English speaking countries. 2. The shipping was free (Actually, folded into the price of the book and location dependent) 3. Delivery could take anywhere between a few weeks to months. I'm wondering if it would be viable to offer an alternative service out of India and I'm willing to try out an experiment: Post the title of a book you would h…

How do you get a vast catalogue of physical copies of English books in India?

Re: Amazon to close Book Depository online shop

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post #75

From the comments I got: 1. It was a good place to buy English books in non-English speaking countries. 2. The shipping was free (Actually, folded into the price of the book and location dependent) 3. Delivery could take anywhere between a few weeks to months. I'm wondering if it would be viable to offer an alternative service out of India and I'm willing to try out an experiment: Post the title of a book you would h…

How do you get a vast catalogue of physical copies of English books in India?

English books are widely and cheaply available in India. Or did I misunderstand your question?

Re: Amazon to close Book Depository online shop

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How do you get a vast catalogue of physical copies of English books in India?

English books are widely and cheaply available in India. Or did I misunderstand your question?

Huh, cool. I imagined in most non-english speaking countries (outside of EU), getting English literature isn't easy.

Re: Amazon to close Book Depository online shop

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English books are widely and cheaply available in India. Or did I misunderstand your question?

Huh, cool. I imagined in most non-english speaking countries (outside of EU), getting English literature isn't easy.

While the number of native speakers is minuscule, English is widely used in India. And according to Nielsen, India is the second largest English-language book market in the world.

Re: Amazon to close Book Depository online shop

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What about abebooks?

Some online booksellers that aren't quietly owned by Amazon include: * Alibris (aggregator like AbeBooks) * Better World Books (B Corp) * ThriftBooks * Bookshop.org (benefits local bookstores) You can also connect directly to nearby independent booksellers on https://www.indiebound.org/

For those interested, here is a Userscript that marks Amazon-owned stores in the bookfinder.com search results: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/464153-outline-amazon-owne...
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