In most if not all of my Bookstores No More posts I’ve been showcasing bookmarks from stores that closed down in the face of competition first from big box stores and then from online retailers. Book Depository is a bit of an exception in that it began as an online bookseller, based in the UK, in 2004. Over the years I ordered quite a few titles from them, and when the books came they usually included a Book Depository bookmark.
Little did I know that these bookmarks would soon be part of the Bookstores No More collection. Book Depository was bought out by Amazon in 2011 and a dozen years later, in 2023, Amazon closed it down. I guess it just didn’t make any sense having two sites offering what was basically the same service. In any event, here are some bookmarks to let you take a trip down a (recent) memory lane.
Book: The Riverside Chaucer edited by Larry Dean Benson and F. N. Robinson
Alex Good 
How was Eat Pray Love?
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I only got as far as the eating part.
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I ordered from them a couple of times. They had great prices.
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For a while they were really cheap, and free shipping on every order too. Then at the very end their prices jumped up to the point where you were paying more than the cover price in some cases. I guess that was part of the death spiral.
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Amazon killed a lot of bookstores sadly – nice selection there!
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Yep, natural tendency toward monopoly in tech.
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