Book Depository Is Closing Down By The End Of April
"From all of us at Book Depository we want to say 'thank you'. Delivering your favourite reads to you since 2007 has been a pleasure."
By Tamara Jayne — 05 Apr 2023, 10:50 AM
One of the world's most popular international online bookstores, Book Depository, just announced that it will be closing down by the end of this month
The UK-based online book seller tweeted that the store will be closing on 26 April. Customers can place their last orders by 12pm on the same day.
Meanwhile, deliveries and support for any order issues will be carried out until 23 June, read the tweet on Tuesday, 4 April.
The announcement, which has since gone viral, shocked many fans around the globe, who expressed their devastation
Several shared that the store had offered them access to books they couldn't normally get in their countries
Book Depository has been around since 2007, offering over 20 million titles with free delivery worldwide to over 170 countries
It offers everything from children's books to fiction, novels, anime and manga, food and drink books, crafts and hobbies, biographies, crime and thriller, as well as art and photography books.
Founded in 2004 by Stuart Felton and Andrew Crawford, a former Amazon employee, Book Depository's mantra was to "sell 'less of more' rather than 'more of less'".
Initially a competitor of Amazon, the store was eventually acquired by the retail giant in 2011, as reported by The Guardian.
According to the report, the news of Book Depository's closure comes after Amazon announced that it had decided to "eliminate" a number of positions across its Devices and Books businesses.
