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Book Depository coming to the US

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Book Depository coming to the US

Post by Misfit » Wed June 24th, 2009, 5:01 pm

According to a post at Dear Author today.
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Post by boswellbaxter » Wed June 24th, 2009, 5:24 pm

Cool! That would be great, since I can't order from their UK site now due to the fact that its system doesn't accept my debit card.
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Post by LoveHistory » Wed June 24th, 2009, 9:09 pm

Does that mean they won't be selling through Amazon anymore?

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Post by Divia » Thu June 25th, 2009, 1:36 am

Does this mean they will have UK books that we can get through the US site :confused: hmmm.

Anyway, if they are cheaper than Amazon..poor amazon is going to lose a lot of my business.
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Post by Chatterbox » Thu June 25th, 2009, 3:23 am

LH, they still sell thru Amazon.co.uk as well as direct in the UK, so I doubt that would be any different here.

I've since had the same problem (unilateral cancellation of an order as 'not available', book still listed as available, but at a higher price or via Amazon where I would have to pay for shipping) as I did before. That's the third time. No more... Free shipping is great, but so is reliability.

Still, I know it has worked well for others, and it's always good to keep Amazon on its toes, even a bit!

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Post by sweetpotatoboy » Thu June 25th, 2009, 9:01 am

I hope this means, for us UK customers, that they will be stocking a greater selection of US-published titles. So far, they haven't done as well as Amazon at stocking non-UK-published titles.

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Post by diamondlil » Thu June 25th, 2009, 9:05 am

I wonder if it will still be free worldwide shipping from both sites, or only one.
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Post by Alaric » Fri June 26th, 2009, 12:34 pm

Or worse, not at all.

That's the only reason I use them.

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Post by diamondlil » Sat June 27th, 2009, 3:23 am

Same here. If I had to pay for postage then it wouldn't be worth my while to do so.
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