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To be fair, this might not be Amazon's fault, it could have happened with any online booksellers, because ultimately the publisher is at fault. For example, Oxf
by Mediterraneo10 6y ago
To be fair, this might not be Amazon's fault, it could have happened with any online booksellers, because ultimately the publisher is at fault. For example, Oxford University Press used to be renowned for the quality of its printing and binding, but it has quietly moved many titles to very shoddy digital printing with misaligned pages and a glued binding that fails instantly, and online you just can't be sure whether you'll get a quality book from an earlier print run, or the new crap. Even the ISBN might be the same.
- kps 6y agoAmazon has been known to ship counterfeit books.
- atoav 6y agoWeird however that it happens so often with Amazon (with books from different publishers) while it never happened to me when using more local online booksellers, where I was essentially buying the same kind of books. I noticed the same thing with other stuff from Amazon. E.g. 3 of the Amazon basic HDMI cables I ordered didn't work. Ordered similarly priced ones at a local retailer and they worked like a charm - all of them. I am not the only person who noticed that Amazon's quality has dropped in recent years. Edit: one thing I forgot to mention: one of the faulty books was also clearly used, there was even a coffee (?) stain inside. This is not something that happens because the publisher has bad quality control.
- viburnum 6y agoSome OUP books look like they were printed on a laser printer from 1988 now. I think they’re doing print-on-demand for some titles. You expect better for a $40 paperback.