Re: [P2P-F] Amazon Alternatives?

2014-06-06 Thread Jay K
Such is the power of the long tail, Amazon combines massive economies of scale and scope with a optimized supply chain driven by a predictive analytics engine that can forecast efficiencies closer to god, it makes the competition both big and small irrelevant. On Thursday, June 5, 2014, Marco

Re: [P2P-F] Amazon Alternatives?

2014-06-04 Thread Kevin Flanagan
I'm quite surprised that there isn't some kind of international cooperative bookstore that brings together small and independent bookstores together in a kind of alliance to connect with customers around the world. I like some of the charity book stores like oxfam but many of them don't deliver

Re: [P2P-F] Amazon Alternatives?

2014-06-01 Thread Marco Giustini
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/nov/30/alternatives-to-amazon-mps-boycott 2014-06-01 1:55 GMT+02:00 Kevin Flanagan kev.flana...@gmail.com: Dear Friends, Can anyone suggest some alternative online book sellers to Amazon with preferably global delivery? We regularly post book reviews

Re: [P2P-F] Amazon Alternatives?

2014-06-01 Thread Marco Giustini
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Re: [P2P-F] Amazon Alternatives?

2014-06-01 Thread Anna
I use eBay. 'Consumer to consumer market place'. Don't know anything about its internal set-up, but it feels it directly puts buyers and sellers in touch. Anna On 1 Jun 2014, at 00:55, Kevin Flanagan kev.flana...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Friends, Can anyone suggest some alternative online

Re: [P2P-F] Amazon Alternatives?

2014-06-01 Thread Örsan Şenalp
dear Kevin, there are some books accesible at library genesis: http://lib.freescienceengineering.org/ hope it would work o. On 1 June 2014 01:55, Kevin Flanagan kev.flana...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Friends, Can anyone suggest some alternative online book sellers to Amazon with preferably

Re: [P2P-F] Amazon Alternatives?

2014-06-01 Thread Michaël
PriceMinister in france, as a kind of peer to peer used and new book retailer has an incredible success. (still controled by a centralized commercial authority though, like facebook for social) 2014-06-01 9:49 GMT+02:00 Anna a...@shsh.co.uk: I use eBay. 'Consumer to consumer market place'.