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Whereas here in Germany, ordering English-language books through my local bookstore is something like €50-per book cheaper than trying to order through Amazon.
by adrianratnapala 10y ago
Whereas here in Germany, ordering English-language books through my local bookstore is something like €50-per book cheaper than trying to order through Amazon. For them the work of getting the book from some foreign book distributor into their store is bread and butter. For some reason, for Amazon, mailing things out is a big thing that requires huge markups.
- mrweasel 10y agoThat's rather interesting, because my experience is from trying to order an English-language book in Denmark. I got to pay the Amazon price plus a little extra to the book store for their trouble (and I had to pick it up at the book store, rather than my mailbox). Then again Danish book stores are insanely crummy. Most of them are somewhere between an arts and crafts store and a book store. Many even add a toys section. The selection of books is a joke in most of them. For the largest chain of book stores, books almost seems to be a secondary product.
- adrianratnapala 10y agoI think the books I was getting were not directly available from Amazon, so they devloved into a web-service that more or less bought the things from UK book suppliers and fedexed them to me. And then theres the shop itself. Hugendubel is a big chain and all its stores seem to have at least three stories. I guess boxes and boxes of overseas books fly every week to some distribution centre where they then get sent along to the stores along with the far larger bulk of German-language books.