#book depository

[elizmanderson]

head's up for all my international peeps: Book Depository announced on Twitter that they're closing on 26 April 2023.

per their tweet: "You can still place orders until midday (12pm BST) on 26 April and we will continue to deliver your purchases and provide support for any order issues until 23 June 2023."

preorders for books that come out before April 26 should be okay. preorders for books that come out after that - or whose dates are pushed back by their publishers - you may want to cancel, but they do say they'll refund you if they're unable to ship your order when the day comes.

for more details, see their FAQ page about the closure

the good news is, it looks like Blackwell's (UK) now offers free international shipping. here's their shipping page for details.

hopefully this means Book Depository closing won't hit as hard as it otherwise would have. free international shipping makes books so much more accessible to so many more readers.

here's the link to Blackwell's main site

[theyilinglaozus]

Be warned guys. Book Depository is closing down, and I’m not sure how that affects preorders.

If, like me, you’ve ordered any of the special editions of books such as MDZS, you might want to look into seeing if it’s possible to get a copy any other way incase they won’t ship out. I’m personally a little upset/worried myself as I had the special edition on preorder since it was first announced last year, and there aren’t a lot of places online where I live that I trust to stock it anymore.

Please be aware, especially since I know many of you were preordering as and when a lot of new danmei titles were being announced.

[orlissa]

Book depository is closing on the 26th :(((((

So I guess that’s pretty much the end of getting actual copies English books for me

[sapphicbookclub]

Book Depository is closing on April 26th!

If you were planning on buying any books and supporting authors that we have posted about previously, it’s kind of your last chance order the books.

If you’ve been a follower for a while, you’ll know that this blog was a Book Depository affiliate but within this week I will be switching the links on the blog to Blackwell’s which also offers free shipping world wide so the books I post about will still be accessible to all.

[malvolios-yellow-stockings]

fucking amazon

Book Depository was the only place I could get English language books from without having to pay preposterous delivery fees

I hope Amazon's sales go down and they fuck themselves over. I hope no one ever buys another book off Amazon again. Fuck this shit.

I can't get anything from half of the publishers because THEY DON'T DELIVER TO MY FUCKING COUNTRY

BD was my lifesaver as an Eng Language and Lit student on the hunt for specific editions of classics. Fuck.

FUCK AMAZON

Long live ☠️🏴

[marionettesden]

Have to say this: fuck Amazon.

This is an irregular post for this side, of tumblr, but I have to say this: fuck Amazon. As of April 26th, Amazon is shuttering Book Depository after 20 plus years in business to keep their goddamn profit margins.

I’ve tried to stick with local stores or at least domestic chains when I can (I’m not American), but Book Depository has been essential for tracking down rarer books or ones that weren’t available via the usual merchants. For the hard copy book trade, this is a horrific blow and one that may never fully be recovered from. Likewise... Amazon stands directly to benefit from this with their digital book trade via Kindle, and at the cost of the jobs of the fine people who kept this operation running no less. Likewise, for authors who operate independently or via smaller platforms/publishers, this is a devastating loss.

I know this is more than most, but in the past 5-10 years I’ve been reading 15-30 books a year and it’s been the truest anchor I’ve had in both good times and the lowest and most complex of eras. I tried digital books at one point, but I migrated back to hard copies pretty quickly.

So yeah, fuck Amazon and everything they stand for.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65184776

[lady-dedlock]

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[actualhumancryptid]

RIP Book Depository

(I have been made aware that Blackwells exists and has free worldwide shipping though).