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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5009 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 1 of 18 10 October 2013 at 1:01pm | IP Logged |
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An eshop selling books in Italian (it is an Italian seller), French, English, German and Spanish. And they have free standard shipping to all the countries of the world! But of course, you can pay for other delivery methods and get your package earlier.
I am now waiting for the two books I ordered. They have some dvds as well but I haven't looked at those yet. And right now, they have a 25% sale on Italian comic books by a publisher I don't know (yet). I'll let you know in 8-10 days whether my books arived ok. 8 persons have voted this message useful | |
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4828 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 2 of 18 10 October 2013 at 5:27pm | IP Logged |
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Quite a lot of the books I consider buying or actually order from Abebooks come from
there. I think they are good, but books can take their time to arrive (including one I have on order from them via AB right now). In fact I seem to have been pretty unlucky with my book orders lately, in that respect. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5009 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 3 of 18 10 October 2013 at 6:05pm | IP Logged |
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I found it through abebooks but I usually consider it the surest and shortest way to get things directly from the original seller (unless someone else has a better offer, of course)
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| seldnar Senior Member United States Joined 7132 days ago 189 posts - 287 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, French, Greek | Message 4 of 18 11 October 2013 at 6:58am | IP Logged |
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Deastore is great. But, as montmorency mentions, it can take some time to get the books.
I've been ordering from them for a year now and, in general, it takes 15 days from the time I order to book until it ships. Then it takes two to four weeks to arrive. Sometimes its much faster, but not often. But I don't want to sound as if I'm complaining; I am a big fan of the store as I can get almost any French book I want (even museum exhibition catalogs) much less expensively than if I had used Amazon or Fnac or Decitre. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5009 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 5 of 18 11 October 2013 at 7:42am | IP Logged |
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Great, seldnar. Do you have any experience with sending a demand email? I would like a few of books they probably used to have (they still have one volume of something in paperback and all in hardcover and I want all paperbacks, just a recent example). Are they in general open to restocking with things people ask for?
I think I made a mistake when I ordered two books at once. They wait for both to arrive to them to be shipped together. Making two separate purchases wouldn't be any more expensive. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5345 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 6 of 18 11 October 2013 at 7:22pm | IP Logged |
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I have used this store and it can be useful, however as others have commented they take a good while to send the books, and in my experience at least, they do not pack them all that well. It is nonetheless an excellent resource if you want just one book or if it is not available elsewhere.
For books in German I very much prefer The Book Depository. Their prices are unbeatable and their inventory system is very reliable; all the books they offer they ship right away. One must search via ISBN however as otherwise finding books can be difficult. In any case it is great that there are vendors like Deastore with an international and multilingual outlook. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4688 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 7 of 18 11 October 2013 at 7:32pm | IP Logged |
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Thus far I've mostly gotten books I want in ebook form, or used via amazon. By far the most common 3rd party amazon vendor I've used, especially for German books, has been The Book Depository that Juan mentioned. If you're looking for something specific, you can find it via an amazon search, and usually they are the only vendor or the cheapest vendor that pops up.
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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5009 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 8 of 18 11 October 2013 at 8:24pm | IP Logged |
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Well, the book depository doesn't have a lot of books in French, however German is likely to be a different case. I had looked for a few and failed (in French). But they have great textbooks in English for very good prices. (Guyton's physiology is on the way :-) )
Amazon is great as long as you live in the country where there is a "home" amazon. But some, especially the French one, have outrageous shipping fees. Really, how can they ask for the same money here, like 800 km from France, as to Japan or Venezuela. Therefore I prefer to pay better, non discriminatory vendors whenever possible. I don't mind to pay realonable delivery fee when I really want something. But I am not going to support my own discrimination. Ebooks are great but somehow even more restricted. With a paper book, noone can tell you "we just don't ship to another region". Now I only need French dvds with reasonable delivery fees. Any ideas? Some will be at deastore, especially some dubbings. But experimental searches for originally French tv series showed nothing. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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