Amazon merger with BookDepository
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Background
Amazon and BookDepository
BookDepository is a UK based bookseller. Retailing worldwide, Bookdepository offers free shipping to all locations, which is a major competition point and has enabled it to seize a sizeable market share. They support the Nook ereader and offer an affiliate scheme.
Recently Amazon and Bookdepository announced an intended merger.
Latest news about the merger
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The anti: While the companies involved say it is a fairly trivial deal, the Booksellers Association and Publishers Association have announced they are opposing it on competition grounds. For example, BookDepository currently supplies the Nook, not the Kindle. Removing this format would leave many Nook readers in the UK and overseas unable to get books. There have been concerns about occassions when Amazon has been accused of leveraging its market power to the detriment of small publishers or authors (including a monopolies case in the US that's only just been settled here).
Here's the latest news from google to help you decide your views.
- Book Depository Live: Amazing Map Shows Book Buying Around The World
- According to the map, a book is being purchased from The Book Depository nearly every minute. whether or not they're being read is another question. But it's certainly hypnotic to watch. Check out these inspiring images of book buying around the world, ...
- Watch worldwide book sales, live
- The Book Depository is a British-based online bookseller that ships to countries around the world, for free. To bring that point home, it has built a map that shows who bought what, where, just now. The window of the map moves to reach the most recent ...
- Amazon: Investing in its future
- While part of its spend is accounted for by acquisitions ? it bought film rental service Lovefilm, online book store The Book Depository and online fashion retailer Zappos in 2009 ? most of its success has come from internal innovation.
- Shop wars are a dirty business
- ''Just in case you don't know,'' she said, ''a cat gets killed in that book.'' When I want something new, the recommendations of friendly staff carry more weight than those thrown up by an algorithm on Amazon, in the same way an online shopping ...
The debate about the merger
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_Joan_ says:
Right now a lot of people who write on platforms like Squidoo are worrying about the way things are going with the Amazon affiliate program (terminating affiliate accounts in some states). Just the other day somebody was talking about Book Depository as an alternative to Amazon. If the merger affects the affiliate programs for Book Depository, there will be some very unhappy people.
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JoshK47
Jul 7, 2011 @ 12:12 pm | delete
- I hadn't heard about this until now - good information!
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