Amazon to close Book Depository online shop
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Amazon to close Book Depository online shop
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Re: Amazon to close Book Depository online shop
#2It's a pity they were ever acquired by Amazon. I managed to get some quite obscure stuff from Book Depository before they were assimilated.
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#3I'm surprised but not surprised. Books get delivered 2-3 months later, if they ever get delivered at all. Need to contact support for replacement. End up preferring to pay the premium at local booksellers than buying from Book Depo. How do they even make money like this.
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#4This really sucks. Use to ship books to family in Ireland and Britain. Amazon with an ever tightening stranglehold :-(
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#5I'm surprised but not surprised. Books get delivered 2-3 months later, if they ever get delivered at all. Need to contact support for replacement. End up preferring to pay the premium at local booksellers than buying from Book Depo. How do they even make money like this.
This is really weird, where are you having the books delivered to?
I’ve never once had this experience and I’ve ordered at least 100 books from the book depository, for delivery to the Middle East.
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#6I wonder if Goodreads is next under the guillotine.
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#7Definitely disappointed, I used them regularly for the last 6/7 years, ordered from them over 70 books and this feels like a punch in the gut. My country is not served by Amazon Prime, so basically for a single book I have to pay a delivery fee of 10 euros... While on the other hand Book Depository offered a free delivery, although you waited a month or two.
Shame, it really sucks, never should have allowed Amazon to buy them.
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#8Wow, didn't see this coming. Though, in retrospect, it's not obvious what value Amazon was getting from running a parallel store.
As a customer this sucks. The website was a much better experience than amazon, and the free shipping everywhere was nice.
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#9This really sucks. Use to ship books to family in Ireland and Britain. Amazon with an ever tightening stranglehold :-(
I use speedyhen for books in the UK. They are usually as cheap as Amazon and delivery is free. I don't know if they'll accept orders from abroad though.
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#10Hopefully this will put regulator on track to pursue anti trust when Amazon attempts similar acquisitions in the future.