Nov 7, 2009
As many of you may know, I have a wishlist at Amazon.com. In the past, I have received items from that list sent by a few gracious friends and family members. I also received amazon.com gift certificates as gifts and honorarium.
But a recent event made me ponder if there is any alternative. My last order of books were charged over $30USD just for shipping! (I cancel the entire shipment at the end) This is really ridiculous as I can get most of the items with free shipping through Amazon.ca or chapters.indigo.ca!
The only problem is that some items that amazon.com has, the Canadian stores just don’t carry.
I tried to look for ways to export the amazon.com wishlist to their Canadian counterpart, but I don’t think there is one. So here is what I think:
- If for any reason, you would like to sent me a gift certificate to buy books online. Send me one from amazon.ca or chapters.indigo.ca. I don’t want to waste your generosity on some crazy shipping cost!
- If you know any open-platform wishlist site that allow people to link items to specific web-stores, please let me know. Specifically, I am looking for one that allow people to view my wishlist without creating an account or logging in.
Aug 29, 2009
Stackhouse on the disappearing of good (Christian) bookstores.
Yes indeed, we will get what we pay for.
May 9, 2009
Some goodies from bookcloseouts.com. Yes, it will take you a long time to go over all those bargain books. But don’t forget you can also get annother saving of $5 or 10, for orders over $35 or $65 from redflagdeals.com!! Boy, that’s tempting…
- Romans 1-8 (Word Biblical Commentary Vol.38A) $16.99
- The Secret Message of Jesus: Uncovering the Truth That Could Change Everything $5.99
- Christian Beginnings and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology) $5.99
- The Younger Evangelicals: Facing the Challenges of the New World $5.99
- The Christian Handbook: An Indispensable Guide to All Things Christian $2.99
- Let Me Tell You a Story $5.49
- In Constant Prayer (The Ancient Practices) $6.99
- Conversations with Poppi about God: An Eight-Year-Old and Her Theologian Grandfather Trade Questions $4.99
- The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America $5.99
Apr 3, 2009
Most Interesting Bookstores of the World
See more here.
[HT: inhabitatiodei.com]
Jul 31, 2008
As I was browsing through Chapters/Indigo and Amazon.com and making price comparison, I notice the former pricing is MUCH MORE competitive than before.
In fact, with iRewards, my shopping cart subtotal is LOWER than the same one I have in Amazon.com. Don’t forget the difference (though minor) due to the exchange rate, and FREE SHIPPING ordering from Chapters/Indigo (within Canada)!!
(and no, amazon.ca pricing is still hopeless)
Read any good book lately? What are you planning to read this summer?
Aug 26, 2006
I was at one of the Christian bookstores here in Toronto the other day and was truly surprised at the markup price of those books! For example, the paperback edition of Dunn's The Theology of Paul the Apostle is marked at $49.99CAD, while if you do a check with Amazon.com, it is $23.10US ($20.99 at Dove) and $29.03CAD if it is bought from Amazon.ca. So even with shipping, to buy online is still A LOT cheaper than at a local bookstore.
Just want to ask all my readers: Do you still go to a local bookstore these days? What keeps you going? From a customer point of view, is there still space for a local bookstore to survive? What do you think?
And for those of you that just stand there at the bookstore reading but not buying, you are only using it as a library. Hence from a customer perspective, there is really no space at all for your local bookstore to survive (but defintely for the Starbucks besides it).
