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Does anyone have a good online bookselling that isn't Amazon? I started using abebooks before realizing its Amazon owned. bookdepository.com is good, but not gr

by rb808 11y ago

Does anyone have a good online bookselling that isn't Amazon? I started using abebooks before realizing its Amazon owned. bookdepository.com is good, but not great. oreilly.com is good for their stuff. B&N is OK I guess.

coldpie 11y ago
I think half.com is pretty good.
caractacus 11y ago
Bookdepository.com is also Amazon owned.
anoother 11y ago
bookdepository.com is also Amazon-owned.
joao 11y ago
bookdepository.com is also owned by Amazon, since 2011. It's hard to escape their grasp on the market.
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LeoPanthera 11y ago
eBay! A huge number of independent bookstores sell books, both used and new, online via eBay.
giaour 11y ago
I like to buy specialty books directly from publishers. Art books are often difficult to find elsewhere, and tech books tend to come with nice extras. I used to prefer FNAC, but they only exist in France.
- FanaHOVA 11y ago
  We have FNAC in Italy :)
  - asendra 11y ago
    And in Spain :P
    - personlurking 11y ago
      "As of 2015, the company has stores in France, Belgium, Brazil, Monaco, Morocco, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland" (Wikipedia) It seems they sold off their Italian stores in 2013.
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pandemicsyn 11y ago
Most of my physical book copies have come from http://subterraneanpress.com http://subterraneanpress.com the last few years. Mostly because at this point when I want a physical copy of a book it tends to be a special edition/signed copy.
patd 11y ago
Never used them but wordery.com might be an option
physicsyogi 11y ago
There's Powell's Books. http://www.powells.com http://www.powells.com
rfreytag 11y ago
https://alibris.com https://alibris.com gets many of its books from libraries rotating their collections. Think of it as adopting a "rescue book." :-)
personlurking 11y ago
Sadly this likely won't help you but in Brazil they've got one site, called Estante Virtual [1], for a network of almost 1,500 independent used bookstores across the country. Even though I no longer live there, I use them as much as possible (ordering books to friends homes if they're going home to visit). While the site charges these indy stores between $12-40 USD per month for the chance to sell on their site, I would think it'd still be a good deal for the stores. I'm not sure if this kind of used bookstore network exists in the English-speaking world but I'd love to know if it does. 1 - http://www.estantevirtual.com.br/ http://www.estantevirtual.com.br/

by rb808 11y ago

coldpie 11y ago

I think half.com is pretty good.

caractacus 11y ago

Bookdepository.com is also Amazon owned.

anoother 11y ago

bookdepository.com is also Amazon-owned.

joao 11y ago

bookdepository.com is also owned by Amazon, since 2011. It's hard to escape their grasp on the market.

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LeoPanthera 11y ago

eBay! A huge number of independent bookstores sell books, both used and new, online via eBay.

giaour 11y ago

I like to buy specialty books directly from publishers. Art books are often difficult to find elsewhere, and tech books tend to come with nice extras. I used to prefer FNAC, but they only exist in France.

FanaHOVA 11y ago
We have FNAC in Italy :)
- asendra 11y ago
  And in Spain :P
  - personlurking 11y ago
    "As of 2015, the company has stores in France, Belgium, Brazil, Monaco, Morocco, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland" (Wikipedia) It seems they sold off their Italian stores in 2013.

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pandemicsyn 11y ago

Most of my physical book copies have come from http://subterraneanpress.com http://subterraneanpress.com the last few years. Mostly because at this point when I want a physical copy of a book it tends to be a special edition/signed copy.

patd 11y ago

Never used them but wordery.com might be an option

physicsyogi 11y ago

There's Powell's Books. http://www.powells.com http://www.powells.com

rfreytag 11y ago

https://alibris.com https://alibris.com gets many of its books from libraries rotating their collections. Think of it as adopting a "rescue book." :-)

personlurking 11y ago

Sadly this likely won't help you but in Brazil they've got one site, called Estante Virtual [1], for a network of almost 1,500 independent used bookstores across the country. Even though I no longer live there, I use them as much as possible (ordering books to friends homes if they're going home to visit). While the site charges these indy stores between $12-40 USD per month for the chance to sell on their site, I would think it'd still be a good deal for the stores. I'm not sure if this kind of used bookstore network exists in the English-speaking world but I'd love to know if it does. 1 - http://www.estantevirtual.com.br/ http://www.estantevirtual.com.br/