I've never ordered books en masse from Amazon, just singular copies now and then...

I find that books in individual packages are more likely to be damaged.

Interesting that you should say this. I've had more damaged books/no show books ordering from Book Depository than I've ever had with Amazon, and I order with Book Depository a lot less frequently.

I've ordered the majority of my new hardbacks and paperbacks from amazon and I've never had a problem.

>>If you're buying to collect, you should be getting hardcovers, not paperbacks.
Just because you're buying a paperback doesn't mean you shouldn't expect a new copy of a book to not be damaged.

the fuck are you trying to say

Yeah, Bookdeposity's books typically have very small damages. I prefer to order from Wordery, which is also free, and is somewhere in between Bookdepository and Amazon in terms of quality.

I don't mind small imperfections, my problem with BD is that it seems like they tend to not be very careful when packaging the books, and you end up with one of the covers, or one of the covers and the first ~20 pages creased down.

Granted, I've had this happen with Amazon purchases too, but I've had it happen more times with Book Depository. It could just be that I've been incredibly unlucky, though. I don't actually purchase from BD very frequently because usually Amazon is around the same price including faster shipping with tracking. When I use BD is usually when there's a huge price disparity with Amazon, or when Amazon is out of stock.

I order a TON of books from Amazon. Usually scientific textbooks in hardcover though, not paperbacks. I honestly probably request a replacement for 50% of what I buy, with respect to book. It probably has to do with your distribution center, but most books I get have significantly dented on the way or like had a weak spine before even leaving distribution.

Also, lookout for paperback books that Amazon prints itself, they tend to be shitty (like the covers never close and the binding glue is cheap). You can find out by looking at the bottom of the last page, if it says it was printed like within the week you ordered it, then Amazon printed it. I know they print at least most of the academic Cambridge University Press softcover books, not sure about the fiction ones.

I wanted to add, sometimes they throw fucking paperbacks into paper envelopes and ship them, and of course they come all bent out of shape and the cover tearing apart.

AMZL_US is highly dependent on who your local delivery people are. For every region, its a totally different company.

I've only had to send back one book. Most come in very good condition

>he orders his book from Amazon
>doesn't support his local used bookstore

>order anatomy of melancholy on amazon
>probably fattest fucking paperback I will ever own
>they send it in a fucking envelope

surprisingly there was only a minor corner ding, but seriously what the fuck. had a secondary seller on amazon send me the ~1200 page paperback "penguin history of the world" in a fucking envelope and it came absolutely fucked, and they tried to stop me returning it by giving me 30% off for a "reading copy"

OP remember that with prime you can return shit for free, no problem; they will kiss your ass to keep you happy

>giving your money to the local (((book merchant))) instead of a public traded company founded and owned by americans

buy some amazon stock bro, then you'll be supporting yourself

as soon as my shitty local bookstore carries the shitty books i want, and provides them for a reasonable price (i.e. not 20 bucks for a sub-par quality paperback with writing in it), i'll be glad to.

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are you retarded? fascists never supported the peti-bourgeois, they always worked with big capital, for example hitler worked closely with ibm to identify which people were jews so that he would know who to kill if he had in fact done the holocaust which he didn't, and if he was around today he'd work closely with amazon and space-x etc. not some sniveling little used book merchants

Shut the fuck up, you babbling idiot. Have you even read the Mein Kampf? Hitler abhorred capitalism and the stock market. Fuck off, and don't reply to my post again, you underaged faggot.

I've bought ~$400 worth of books from amazon this year and only had one show up with any damage (crinkle in the dust cover). Like other have said, scrutinize the source and the delivery method and you're fine.

>hitler hated capitalism

lol @ these kids who think the nazis were actually socialist because they had socialism in the name, if you're going to be a nazi on the internet at least learn what the fuck you're talking about bro

I know you're b8ing me, faggot. But I won't bite :^)

it wasn't in there for no reason, they nationalized great swaths of crucial industry

>it's some low-t fem posting cartoon avatars

oh i thought you were a serious kekman for a second but your extreme anti-capitalism exposed you ass a femboy

what companies did they nationalize? i can't think of a more critical business to nationalize than ig farben and that remained a private contractor for nazi government for the duration

For years I ordered from Amazon *because* the books always came in pristine condition. Then I moved to a new state, and the books started coming in damaged. Now I order from The Book Depository and Barnes & Noble.

Why is he wrong? The nazis (at first) worked pretty closely with big business from 1933-36ish, while preaching worker rights and disbanding worker unions and collective bargaining, and lowering wages.

Also it became almost comical how middling nazi officials would get fucked by the party higher-ups because of trying to actually implement socialist policies. It's basically a running joke in Shirer's history that "this poor idiot actually believed the 'socialist' in 'national socialist' lmao"

>The Book Depository

owned by Amazon

lol

I can literally pull my copy up my copy of Mein Kampf and start dropping quotes about his hatred toward the capitalist system. But I really don't care enough to prove some faggot wrong over the internet. Talk to me once you've read Mein Kampf, kiddo.

if hitler was such a communist why didn't he support the spartacist uprising? post some anti-capitalist quotes from mein kampf bro let's see 'em

Hitler wasn't a communist, either, you oath. He hated tremendously both capitalism and communism. First learn the subject matter before you form conjectures, kid.

Nazism and Fascism were conceived and sold as a "third way"

reading comprehension check!

post the quotes bro

fascism is corporatism, which means big business runs the country, which is why hitler would partner with amazon to distribute consumer goods to the masses and find out who is ordering marxist books and kill them

hmm... that wouldn't please the shareholders

like hell it wouldn't! ask the ibm shareholders how they liked their contract with hitler!

I just ordered this from amazon. It came perfectly intact. Usually the books I order from amazon come in better shape than you'd find them on display in book shops because amazon's process is so automated that you're often the first person to touch those books

>Apple Mac

inb4 some gamer hobbyist gets triggered

Hating capitalism doesn't mean you love socialism. He fucked the masses, he fucked big business (eventually).

PS not everything in mein kampf was enacted m8; theory/ideology ≠ history

come on bro trying to pin nazism on socialists is like a tea party tier tactic, leave that kind of dishonesty to sarah palin

Amazon is pretty liberal about returns, especially if you buy from an amazon backed seller. If you do have any troubles, I almost gaurentee you can get a refund or exchange. I once got a refund and didn't even have to return the book in question.

The people who bitch about Macs being a fashion accessory still need to explain why a computer's aesthetic appeal isn't a valid reason to prefer it. Do these people wear $10 jeans from target?

yeah, that's why i only sell on ebay, i used to sell on amazon too until some fucking fag professor at university of wisconsin bought some shit from me and then returned it on day 59 of the 60 day return policy, i'm like you couldn't afford to keep that you wanker? i think he was trying to flip it, since i was selling it low he probably bought it and held it trying to sell it for more, and then returned when he couldn't, he dinged the shit it up too, i was like ok i'm done selling on amazon

>Do these people wear $10 jeans from target?

Yes! they do probably...i remember on a tech forum on a story about walmart buying bonobos to acquihire their e-retail expertise some dweeb was like "80 dollars for a shirt? HIPSTERS!!!! I buy my shirts for 15$ at BJs!!!" i was like how this is how the ppl in flyover country are living their lives lol

What? I'm literally saying the nazis were not socialists, and that "true" socialists had no place for themselves in the nazi party.

the point was some hitlerposter was all ">amazon" and it's like yeah "amazon" because the nazis partnered with the biggest corporations of the day, they sure as hell didn't go to little merchants and have a neighborly chat as they ring up their little purchase, but my point was "peti-bourgeoisism" is a pretty sad form of anti-capitalism, you give up economies of scale for what? so small time entrepreneur gets your money? amazon is a publicly traded company, if you had bought shares in it instead of hatin' and being a piece of shit luddite you could be ballin out right now, peep this chart:

google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chfdeh=0&chdet=1498886181766&chddm=1998010&chls=IntervalBasedLine&q=NASDAQ:AMZN&ntsp=0&ei=HDBXWZnyAdaHmAGUwqyYCQ

meanwhile you think your local bookmerchant gives a fuck about you? you think they're going to help pay for your kids to go to college? no, but my amazon stock will. suck it.

How is Barnes and Noble like?

not bad, the big one at union square has like 90% of anything you could want, and they have a decent selection of lit theory journals and "indie" music mags

Thanks

I forgot to mention that I wanted to return them and when I complained they just gave me my money back and let me keep the "books". Pic related

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