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A lokal bookshop in my hometown just opened a digital order mechanism. You can order your book there, have it available for retrieval within one, at the most tw
by sdoering 11y ago
A lokal bookshop in my hometown just opened a digital order mechanism. You can order your book there, have it available for retrieval within one, at the most two days.
I think, they even think about partnering with local delivery providers to make delivery possible.
But it is hard to beat Amazon on the "no cost for shipping" thing for books in Germany.
If I would still live there, I would totally use this instead of Amazon for books.
- germanier 11y agoMost large bookstore chains in Germany offer this service as well (e.g. Thalia, Weltbild, Hugendubel - not that their business practices are any better than Amazon's). I chatted with a few employees but almost nobody seems to use that service. Except for mine, all other books were either ordered in person or by phone. If there was an independent bookstore here that offered that I would totally use it. But it's even hard to find any independent bookstore here (eastern Germany), so I'm back to Amazon.
- sdoering 11y agoI totally understand this. I do not have an independent bookstore near where I work or where I live, since moving away from my hometown for work. So yeah - sadly I am also back to Amazon.