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What about abebooks?

by electroagenda 4y ago

lancesells 4y ago
Amazon owns it so who knows how much longer that stays around.
- nottorp 4y ago
  abebooks too? <drops into depression>
  - brutusurp 4y ago
    It's really bad. We probably want to not have monopolies like Amazon moving forward. So much so that we could probably pass laws to prevent it. Just in case we forget.
    - nottorp 4y ago
      Pretty sure the US has laws about it. But their interpretation has changed since the famous AT&T breakup.
      - LeonB 4y ago
        It’s a complex area - any time I read into the history of “antitrust” etc in the US I get lost in a quagmire of details. Overall the US seems to be incredibly open to monopsonies, monopolies, and oligopolies, and very hostile to any restraint on such things. Though, the merest hint of success from a non-US entity seems to invoke bipartisan terror and pleadings for sanctions and new regulations. Funny that.
adolph 4y ago
An “extraordinary and unprecedented” global protest from antiquarian booksellers has forced the Amazon-owned secondhand marketplace AbeBooks to backtrack on its decision to pull out of several countries. AbeBooks had told bookshops in countries including Hungary, the Czech Republic, South Korea and Russia that it would no longer support them from 30 November, citing migration to a new payment service provider as the reason for the withdrawal. The move prompted almost 600 booksellers in 27 countries to pull more than 3.5m titles from Abebooks’ site, putting them on “vacation” as they cited the motto of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, “Amor librorum nos unit” (love of books unites us). https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/nov/08/amazon-abebooks-backs-down-after-booksellers-stage-global-protest https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/nov/08/amazon-abebook...
dublinben 4y ago
Some online booksellers that aren't quietly owned by Amazon include: * Alibris (aggregator like AbeBooks) * Better World Books (B Corp) * ThriftBooks * Bookshop.org (benefits local bookstores) You can also connect directly to nearby independent booksellers on https://www.indiebound.org/ https://www.indiebound.org/
- StrangeATractor 4y ago
  Bookmarked all of them, thank you.
- ornornor 4y ago
  Thank you. It’s very hard to escape amazon and not feed the monster.
- reaperducer 4y ago
  Also: biblio.com I think it's run out of Charlotte.
- basilikarsk 4y ago
  For those interested, here is a Userscript that marks Amazon-owned stores in the bookfinder.com search results: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/464153-outline-amazon-owned-bookstores https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/464153-outline-amazon-owne...

What about abebooks?

lancesells 4y ago

Amazon owns it so who knows how much longer that stays around.

nottorp 4y ago
abebooks too? <drops into depression>
- brutusurp 4y ago
  It's really bad. We probably want to not have monopolies like Amazon moving forward. So much so that we could probably pass laws to prevent it. Just in case we forget.
  - nottorp 4y ago
    Pretty sure the US has laws about it. But their interpretation has changed since the famous AT&T breakup.
    - LeonB 4y ago
      It’s a complex area - any time I read into the history of “antitrust” etc in the US I get lost in a quagmire of details. Overall the US seems to be incredibly open to monopsonies, monopolies, and oligopolies, and very hostile to any restraint on such things. Though, the merest hint of success from a non-US entity seems to invoke bipartisan terror and pleadings for sanctions and new regulations. Funny that.

adolph 4y ago

An “extraordinary and unprecedented” global protest from antiquarian booksellers has forced the Amazon-owned secondhand marketplace AbeBooks to backtrack on its decision to pull out of several countries. AbeBooks had told bookshops in countries including Hungary, the Czech Republic, South Korea and Russia that it would no longer support them from 30 November, citing migration to a new payment service provider as the reason for the withdrawal. The move prompted almost 600 booksellers in 27 countries to pull more than 3.5m titles from Abebooks’ site, putting them on “vacation” as they cited the motto of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, “Amor librorum nos unit” (love of books unites us). https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/nov/08/amazon-abebooks-backs-down-after-booksellers-stage-global-protest https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/nov/08/amazon-abebook...

dublinben 4y ago

Some online booksellers that aren't quietly owned by Amazon include: * Alibris (aggregator like AbeBooks) * Better World Books (B Corp) * ThriftBooks * Bookshop.org (benefits local bookstores) You can also connect directly to nearby independent booksellers on https://www.indiebound.org/ https://www.indiebound.org/

StrangeATractor 4y ago
Bookmarked all of them, thank you.
ornornor 4y ago
Thank you. It’s very hard to escape amazon and not feed the monster.
reaperducer 4y ago
Also: biblio.com I think it's run out of Charlotte.
basilikarsk 4y ago
For those interested, here is a Userscript that marks Amazon-owned stores in the bookfinder.com search results: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/464153-outline-amazon-owned-bookstores https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/464153-outline-amazon-owne...