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This is great news for bibliophiles. Just order $25 worth of books and shipping is free. You can add nonbook items which then ship free as well. Perhaps Amazon has finally realized that people who buy books are more sophisticated buyers than those who don't buy books.
Now Amazon needs to examine their book prices. For the past year I've been buying from mostly third party sellers on Amazon simply because I've gotten better prices. I'd really love to return to the old days when Amazon virtually always had the best price and no $3.99 shipping charge as all of the third party sellers do.
I just bought a book for $27.99 and a kitchen spatula for $6.99. Shipping was free.
There has been a recent change. On mine it is showing free shipping for orders over $49.00(with no books) but if I order $25.00 worth of books then the rest of my order also ships for free.
Maybe they are trying to get people to read more, lol.
It was $35 for a long time and then in my home state they started adding sales tax to orders so now it's $25 if you only order books. If you order something else you have to spend $49.99 to get the free shipping. Confusing!
Re: 'I've been buying from mostly third party sellers on Amazon simply because I've gotten better prices. I'd really love to return to the old days when Amazon virtually always had the best price and no $3.99 shipping charge as all of the third party sellers do'
Things sure do change eh? All due to the relentless rise of 'costs'. Wouldn't be surprised sometime down the line to find that because of 'costs' books will no longer have dust jackets.
Pictures too could go. I mean everybody has iPhones nowadays, eh? Take yer own and put'em between the pages...;-)..nothing like bringing out the 'do-it-yourselfers' in reading.
Do you think books write themselves? Authors need to make a living too you know.
How do you think most authors are first discovered by the reading public?
I'll take my state of New York. We have over 1100 public libraries...and I'm not even counting the school libraries. We have a population of over 19 million people and over 10 million of them have library cards. We order huge quantities of books for the reading public...UPS drops off boxes of books at my library every day. For many authors the public library is their biggest customer. If we know it's a popular author we'll order 10-15 copies of a book at one time.
If our patrons stop taking out books, we stop ordering. Then the author is really screwed.
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