Bookdepository.com Overview
The site is working as an online bookseller or online book retailer since it got founded in 2004. The company is headquartered in London, United Kingdom and is serving worldwide with 150 employees.
Book depository is currently owned by e-commerce giant Amazon since 2011 and is offering over 17 million titles on website. The website recently got ranked at 3,523 in April 2018 by Alexa chart.
How it started and what they offer?
It got started in 2004 by Andrew Crawford and Stuart Felton. The site is now world’s leading specialist online bookstores offering free delivery worldwide in almost 100 above countries. The site welcomes thousands of customers across the world each day and has the job done by their fulfilment centres in Melbourne, Australia and Gloucester, United Kingdom.
They have lot more to offer in their stores with a large catalogue at cheaper rates. They are currently working on getting more or adding up more to their titles thus providing the facility for the customers to have them all in foreign language and especially
in English on their list. For this they are talking to their publishers and distributors thus increasing the sale and service hand in hand.
They have some top categories listed on their website that includes biography, art/photography, science fiction, food/drink, history, children’s books, crafts, Crime/thriller, fiction, sport, romance, health, medical, religion, computing, technology, travel, business and many more. They also make your job easier with a filter and sale section that brings up list of your choice with discount.
Aside from above, they provide you search option by keyword, title, author or ISBN and allow you to pay by Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and American Express.
Is their delivery fast?
If one places the order within UK then they offer you the service delivery within 2-5 business days whereas outside country takes a little bit of more time according to the country service and rules.
They also have the cancellation option under which customer enjoys a 30 day return policy and gets the refund within 14 days.
Its achievements
The company has been awarded with the Direct Bookselling Company of the year award in 2009 and 2010 and has also got ranked 5th in 2013 at the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 list.
