Thread: Where Do You Get Your Books? (A Survey)
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Old 07-16-2010, 02:58 AM   #25
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Book Depository oddities
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Originally Posted by roguefan99 View Post
Ebooks are listed on the side link but because I'm nice here is a direct one

http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/category/3390/eBooks

Weird and wonderful. The first time I clicked on the link got taken to a section on Christian books. Dumped browser cache and hit the link again and there were ebooks!

Now get told the 4 books I was interested in were out of stock (from science fiction, fantasy & horror classification). Changed from "all" to "in stock" and dropped from 23431 books to 7716 books. It boggles the mind to think that less than 1/3 of their ebooks are in stock. Whatever "in stock" means to an ebook.

Hmmm... science fiction alone went from 9528 to 2268 -- less than 25%. Though the numbers may be inflated since it appears that every format is counted as a separate book. Sensible enough for physical media but for electronic media?
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