There are no words for how much this sucks. If you are outside the US/EU, reasonably priced books in english aren't easy to find. CompSci literature in English? Forget it, buddy. Book Depository had decent prices with free international shipping to most of the world. Sure, I have to wait a month and sometimes they have to reship because it got damaged in transport, but if I need a book immediately Library Genesis is right there. Book Depository built out my home library for both fiction and non-fiction, and I will miss it dearly. Salute o7
I do wonder if Brexit and customs to be paid for all of the EU has anything to do with this decision.<p>Book Depsitory is based in the UK. I have inadvertently ordered from them, to the Netherlands, as they had a “Bookdepository NL” store, which made it seem like they are an EU entity.<p>However, when the book arrived, I was hit by unexpected customs charges that were half the price of the book. Looking at recent reviews, there was a surge of these complaints from all customers in the Netherlands [1]<p>Perhaps the timing on these customs surges are accidental, of course. But I can’t imagine that Brexit helped with their EU sales.<p>[1] <a href="https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1638824647390003206" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1638824647390003206</a>
Wow, didn't see this coming. Though, in retrospect, it's not obvious what value Amazon was getting from running a parallel store.<p>As a customer this sucks. The website was a much better experience than amazon, and the free shipping everywhere was nice.
Definitely 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.<p>Shame, it really sucks, never should have allowed Amazon to buy them.
Goddammit, I had no idea Amazon owned Book Depository. Their service was great and it was the best way I had to buy technical books when i lived in Brazil.
I'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.
From the comments I got:<p>1. It was a good place to buy English books in non-English speaking countries.<p>2. The shipping was <i>free</i> (Actually, folded into the price of the book and location dependent)<p>3. Delivery could take anywhere between a few weeks to months.<p>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 have bought via Book Depository and I'll try to send it out to you for free. Just let me know when the book arrives and in what condition so as to gauge how reliable the postal network is. I don't have a budget in mind but I'd like to ship at least 5 books to different geographies.
Seems a simple plan to address a competitor.<p>Buy it. Invest nothing major into it. Wait for the economy to take a downturn and shut it down because it isn't profitable.
Living in France, to buy technical books in English for sensible money and without onerous shipping cost, I always used Amazon and the books were often delivered by Book Depository. Wondering how things will be after it closes.
Amazon seems to be following Microsoft's EEE strategy (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...</a>), skipping the Extend
This does suck for obvious reasons, but I also think we need to get a good, thin, eInk tablet like Remarkable or Boox Note down to the sub 100 usd/gbp price. Kindles are ok but they’re too small for textbooks and you’re also locked into Amazon. Plus they’re read only (apart from the latest one), and the new generation of tablets around atm can serve as paper like notebooks as well as eReaders. I like reading paper books as much as the next guy but it is hard to justify sending millions of books each year all over the world when we could send them over the wire for a fraction of the cost and pollution.
You can at least export your wishlist to a table-laden html file @ <a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/account/wishlist/print" rel="nofollow">https://www.bookdepository.com/account/wishlist/print</a>
It took longer than I thought. Amazon bought TBD over a decade ago. I figured they would have snuffed them out years ago. It was a sad day when they got bought by Amazon. Good luck to the team.