Thanks to Bookshop, indies stand a chance against Amazon

Re:Thanks to Bookshop, indies stand a chance against Amazon by throwaway_pdp09 on Friday April 03, 2020 @06:53PM (#22774717)

Haven't read the article but like what you say, I tried to get a book from waterstones, a UK bookshop on my high street. I don't mind paying 20% or 25% extra as I don't like amazon and I do want to support local bookshops but when they cost that much more and they don't have it in stock and can't tell me when they will get it in, I say screw you and go with amazon.

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Re:Thanks to Bookshop, indies stand a chance against Amazon by Obsnold on Saturday April 04, 2020 @04:41AM (#22777024)

I recently bought a book from waterstones online but only because amazon would have taken at least 3 weeks to get it to me. It was the same price as amazon but I did have to pay a couple of pounds for postage. Though another reason to not buy amazon is to avoid fakes. I have bought a book from amazon that was clearly fake.

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Re:Thanks to Bookshop, indies stand a chance against Amazon by tartoran on Friday April 03, 2020 @10:43PM (#22775791)

In order to avoid amazon I get my books from abebooks. Sadly today I just found out Abebooks is owned by Amazon.

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Re:Thanks to Bookshop, indies stand a chance against Amazon by jrmg on Friday April 03, 2020 @11:07PM (#22775914)

Alibris is basically the same thing and not owned by Amazon.

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Re:Thanks to Bookshop, indies stand a chance against Amazon by wdb on Friday April 03, 2020 @07:06PM (#22774795)

Actually, occasionally Waterstones is actually cheaper than Amazon :)

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