geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4686 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian
| Message 9 of 18 11 October 2013 at 8:36pm | IP Logged |
Cavesa wrote:
Ebooks are great but somehow even more restricted. With a paper book, noone can tell you "we just don't ship to another region".
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Actually, there are plenty of places I've found online that say that, I'm afraid (especially in Northern Europe). The laws might not prevent them from being allowed to sell you the paper book, but they nevertheless can and do decide it's not worth it to them to serve customers in a broader geographic region.
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Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5007 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian
| Message 10 of 18 12 October 2013 at 12:31pm | IP Logged |
Well, at least it shouldn't be a trouble inside the EU. The EU laws don't prevent them from discriminating some countries inside EU (basically, the shops just changed their tags in the delivery fee tables from "worthless non eu countries" to "worthless, second rate eu countries" without any change of prices) but they are no longer allowed to not ship to other EU countries unless they choose not to ship to any foreign country at all.
This is actually good for people outside the EU as well. There are many intermediary services that live of smoothing out the way between the seller and the customer. You can for example have something shipped on an American adress and have the company there send it to your home adress here for a better price than the original vendor asks. And there are surely companies that go the opposite way, even though they are likely to be less widely known.
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montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4826 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh
| Message 11 of 18 31 October 2013 at 9:12pm | IP Logged |
Deastore: I have today received the book I ordered from Deastore.
I checked back, and I ordered it on 4th October, so it has taken 3 weeks and 6 days.
I got a shipping notice about 2 weeks after ordering, and hoped it might arrive about a
week after that, or sooner hopefully. It's taken a bit longer. I wasn't waiting
urgently for the book; only a bit worried in case it might have gone astray.
Anyway, on a positive note, it was very well packed and in very good condition. A brand
new book in fact.
(It was Assimil "Dänisch Ohne Mühe").
Edited by montmorency on 01 November 2013 at 12:01am
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Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5343 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes Speaks: Spanish*
| Message 12 of 18 05 October 2014 at 9:42pm | IP Logged |
Does Deastore no longer sell books in French, German and Spanish? What a shame. They used to be a great resource.
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geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4686 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian
| Message 13 of 18 05 October 2014 at 11:00pm | IP Logged |
Juаn wrote:
Does Deastore no longer sell books in French, German and Spanish? What a shame. They used to be
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Wow, that must have happened in the past few weeks. Yes, a shame. There's still a good selection available from
www.bookdepository.com, though.
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 14 of 18 05 October 2014 at 11:52pm | IP Logged |
Great!!! today I noticed that ibs.it requires an Italian credit card for buying e-books from now on... but maybe this site can replace it for me now.
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Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5007 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian
| Message 15 of 18 06 October 2014 at 3:26pm | IP Logged |
Noooooooooooo!!!! where am I going to buy French and Spanish books from now on? Bookdepository really doesn't have everything I want, these languages aren't obviously a top priority, and amazon delivery fees are expensive :-( thanks for the info though.
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garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5205 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish
| Message 16 of 18 06 October 2014 at 3:45pm | IP Logged |
I was about to respond in the same way, regarding IBS! Amazon UK has a decent Italian selection at least, but I'm not sure how it is for other countries.
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