/lit/ - Literature

>free delivery worldwide
WTF, this is probably a scam, OP.

>>18590408
It’s real, but if you live in a third world shit hole like me, then your books are likely to get lost in the mail. They’re aware of that, I think, which is why the refund you if you contact them and tell themn your books never arrived. They might even offer sending a replacement. Make sure you use a vpn and set your location in the UK.

>>18590408
>bookdepository.com
Owned by Amazon

>>18590416
Everything is possible with Bezos-sama

>>18590408
>is owned my amazon anyway

I don't get it, it's just an online book store.
That map of what people are buying is pretty neat though.

>>18590517
KEK yes, I can somewhat imagine what they are planning.

>>18590496
I live in Argentina, a third world bureaucratic hellhole infamous for its terrible post office, and every single book I ordered from bookdepository arrived on time or earlier than expected.
In what kind of backward ass country do you live?

>>18590416
>free delivery worldwide*
*delivery is included in the price tag

>>18590508
i wonder why theres all the stuff i couldnt find on amazon

>>18590544
they ship free
to me :)

I thought that site was common knowledge. Here in New Zealand I know many people who get all their books from there

What the fuck?
I was just about to ask about this site...

>>18590574
Yes, I noticed that, they are really expensive.

>>18590496
Why use a VPN? You aren't ordering from NK, are you?

>>18590496
>set your location in the UK.
why?

>>18590519
>>>18590408 (OP)
>>is owned my amazon anyway
... so?

>>18590589
>i wonder why theres all the stuff i couldnt find on amazon
Because it functions as the original business it was created as.

i saw people saying on /lit/ before that they got books for free from this site by just saying that the package never came in since they have no tracking

Used to order from there but they recently hiked their prices so I stopped

Why doesn’t this site say what condition the book is in

>>18590508
JEFF BEZOS I KNEEL

Anyone know a good site to buy books that isn't owned by Amazon?

>>18591279
They’re all new

>>18591339
This can’t be true. Proof?

>>18591322
ebay

>>18590638
Cheaper books I guess. Many sites determine prices based on location. In this case, it’s probably to determine delivery costs beforehand so they can lie about free shipping.

i was about to buy three books when a "price update" happened and all the books doubled in price.

>>18590496
>set your location in the UK.
if you’ve got a vpn you should set it to malaysia cheapest prices

>>18590654
you can do that for one in ten books but you should rely on that as they will catch up and probably ban you from using the site

>>18590416
Free shipping my balls. I live in Japan and I've been using this free VPN to pay British prices, it's great because I can save a lot of money.
>>18590574
¿Te envían los libros uno por uno o todos juntos?

Literally everything is more expensive than Amazon

>>18590654
Once I got a free book. I ordered several books, one didn't arrive, I waited for almost a month, sent them an email, I got a refund and next day the book was in my mailbox.

>>18590408
Checked some of the prices and compared them to my recent online purchases. It's twice as much. Free shipping my ass.

>>18592246
Are you sure? I bought these in February and I was comparing prices but they didn't change much.
A Maggot: 9,18
Mantissa: out of stock
The Damned: 9,39
Against Nature: 6,11
French Decadent Tales: 6,11

>>18592274
I compared the site's prices to my local bookshops that sell online. This much of a difference makes me think that bookdepository makes up for their "free" shipping with exorbitant margins.

does the vpn thing still work or is it fixed?

>>18592305
It's working.

>>18592308
but when youre checking out doesnt it fix according to the adress?

>>18592321
No. When checking out you just have to choose your country and type your address, it won't alter the price of your order.

>>18590408
The few books I want are over 40 dollary doos. Better off buying on Amazon

>>18592329
Yeah, everything is twice as expensive

Have you heard of abebooks yet op?
Thats way more exciting unless you dont live in the uk or america

>>18590617
This, I'm a fucking /lit/ newfag from like 2017, 2018 and I've known about this site for years. I used to use it before I switched to libgen and Soulseek. OP, are you retarded?
Also, keep in mind it takes fucking forever to books to get to the US.

I just like thriftbooks

>>18590508
What the fuck how
I literally learned about this site from some blogpost which recommended good Amazon alternatives
But I liked it, I was able to import some Pynchon and Joyce in English, unavaliable in my country

>>18592682
Amazon owns Goodreads and IMDB too

I buy from there sometimes, but the delivery is very long.

>abebooks

>>18592682
Abebooks belongs to Amazon too.

>>18592735
Yeah, I knew about Goodreads, but sadly I find it too useful to stop using it.

>>18592764
nooooooooo!!! It can't be!!!

> AbeBooks has been a subsidiary of Amazon since 2008.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>18590408
Stop buying physical books.. They'll become cumbersome and clutter your living space. Buy ebooks if you much or obtain them by many available means. Also, use your local library more.

>>18590408
I’m from Australia and all the books I’ve ordered from that website have come in time and in perfect condition. I’m always amazed at the pristine condition they arrive despite coming all the way from the UK.

Lol. AbeBooks and Book Depository are both Amazon subsidiaries. Book Depository's even listed as a seller ON AbeBooks. They don't add a tracking number to things they sell through AbeBooks, however, so you can refund everything on the pretense that it didn't arrive. You don't have to pay for fucking anything.

>>18593015
what's the top-3 ereaders atm?

>>18590574
Egypt. Most of the backward cunts working in the post office cant’t read the address in English, and I can’t type it in Arabic on book depository. So I ended up not getting two books for more than 3 months. I contacted them, and they offered sending replacements so I transliterated the address and got the books a month later.

>>18593004
Why is goodreafs useful?

>>18590408
>>18590416
its actually real, ive bought a few paper backs from their

>>18590408
I bought from them through AbeBooks, it's all right, they'll give you these cringe bookmarks too.

>>18593200
I like using it for automated book recommendations. Say you've read 5 books with some common theme or trait, and you want more. On Goodreads you can put them under a single tag, or "shelf", and get recommendations based on these 5 alone.
it's also useful for just keeping track of books you read or you've already read, and writing notes on them - this is especially useful if you mainly get books from a library.
The community reviews are hit or miss, and usually miss

>>18590408
When will Godking Bezos make books cheaper?

>>18593232
the bookmarks used to be better I still have a few from a decade ago

>>18593299
Agree, I got bookmarks from 3-4 years ago and they are pretty good. Interesting designs and far higher quality material. New ones are a piece of shit and I wouldn't use them for shit.

>>18592202
what VPN?

>>18593323
Windscribe

lmao this is a cool page, Germany seems to be full of weebs

>the obscure book that was posted in a thread I read on a non-literature board, pirated, and made one search for is more than half off price
Big data scary.

>>18593627
What is this?

>>18593767
https://www.bookdepository.com/live
You can watch people buy books in real time.

>>18591322
Blackwells if you're in the UK

>>18593779
Fuck this gay island.

>>18592202
>¿Te envían los libros uno por uno o todos juntos?
No siempre. Depende mucho de donde salgan los libros, y eso es algo que no podes controlar cuando compras. En el peor de los casos te llegan con unos días de diferencia.

Why would you buy books? Most of the classics are in the public domain. Just google the book you want and get the PDF or EPUB. Then put it away on a flash drive and forget about it while continue to post on /lit/.

>>18592682
control through the illusion of choice. from the products we buy, information we obtain, to the parties we vote for. this is the schism instrument in which the central banking hierarchy controls the progression of the global infrastructure.

>>18591322
Visit local bookstores and buy used ones.

>>18595046
Because I want to carry them around and enjoy having them on my shelf where they will be available whenever I want them to be. It's also an experience reading a book because of the bond that you form as a reader and that means something to me.

If you buy from book depository on abebooks, you can refund them and abebooks will automatically give you your money back because book depository doesn't have tracking numbers. So just wait until the expected delivery date has passed and initiate refund.
Free money

>>18590654
shh

>>18596265
I always wondered how this scheme works. Doesn’t it cause revenue leakage, or are they already making this ton of money to the point where a refund and say, two copies of a book, since they can also send out another copy if you never received the book? How does it work?

>>18596265
Won't they eventually realize you're scamming them and ban you?

>>18596725
>>18597457
you can only do it 1/10 books at most, otherwise yeah they ban you from the system

>>18590641
So it still supports 1 company being able to unilaterally decide what books you are and aren't allowed to read

>>18590408
Yes, but if you're Brazilian you'll have to wait five or six months for the books to arrive.

bump

>>18590574

Peru....

>>18593232
Don't mind me just a best bookmark coming through

>>18596725
I'm assuming because they are owned by amazon that they don't really care about losses caused by this.
Considering they don't use tracking, and don't follow up about packages claimed to not have arrived, they just don't give a fuck

>>18590408
Anyone know where to find a collection of the original goosebump series. Preferably the one that uses the original covers.

The one in bookdepository is incomplete and a mish-mash.

The idea of a sweet pepe getting excited about the prospects of book depository existing makes me really sad, I wish I could hug the excited pepe...

>>18590408
I never buy books online since I'm comfy in our local library. Living in the countryside by the way

>order six books
>they get dispatched separately
>on different days
>no tracking, no delivery date
>first two got delivered today by two different carriers
I'll never buy from them again unless I have no other choice.

>>18592041
if you have lesser known books that aren't bought as often laying in your Cart for multiple days then this happens. Just bookmark the specific site of the book or copy the links to a separate document on your pc/phone notes if you're using multiple days to decide on what you're getting.

I was trying to buy some less read Zizek books when this happened to me. I didn't need them instantly, so I removed them from my cart, and after a day or two they dropped in price to normal.

>>18600102
What a snowflake, they always arrive.

>>18600102
Cope nigger. Used bookdepo for multiple years. Always ships like that, always arrives.

>>18600147
>>18600161
Guess it's fine if you're a neet who can sit on your porch all day long.

>>18593232
Who thought to reference a movie on a bookmark? What sense does that make?

>>18600171
Kind of shit are you ordering s.t. it doesn't fit thru yr letterbox?

>>18600457
bix nood

>>18600483
Come again?