This aint good, they were often the cheapest bookstore, the only one with halfway sensible shipping costs for a lot of the world, and often the widest selection. If anywhere has the obscure anatomy book I needed, it would be book depository.
They pulled a Walmart. Sell at a loss (you're huge can can absorb it), gobble up market share, put the competitors out of business, now you're the only game in town.
That is something no one is talking about. For years, Amazon was just about the cheapest for books; 30-50% off cover price was routine.
I was ordering some novels recently, and they were all cover price- there would be no reason to bother ordering from Amazon at that point, except the only bookstore left in town is Barnes & Noble and they didn't have the books I wanted on the shelf.
This aint good, they were often the cheapest bookstore, the only one with halfway sensible shipping costs for a lot of the world, and often the widest selection. If anywhere has the obscure anatomy book I needed, it would be book depository.
Fuck amazon.
They pulled a Walmart. Sell at a loss (you're huge can can absorb it), gobble up market share, put the competitors out of business, now you're the only game in town.
That is something no one is talking about. For years, Amazon was just about the cheapest for books; 30-50% off cover price was routine.
I was ordering some novels recently, and they were all cover price- there would be no reason to bother ordering from Amazon at that point, except the only bookstore left in town is Barnes & Noble and they didn't have the books I wanted on the shelf.