Online Bookstores That Aren't Amazon
This is a repost of my original list (with a few changes).
There's plenty of chatter about how Amazon isn't nice, but as long as they're making money hand over fist, they have no incentive to be nice. So...
Reading is good. Amazon.com... not so much. Buy your books and media from somebody nice1.
U.S. | Canada | Germany | Sweden | U.K. | Find a local independent store | Ebooks | Linking | Additions and Corrections
United States
Alibris
New and used books. Free shipping with minimum $49 purchase of qualifying books. CDs and DVDs.
Barnes & Noble
New and used books. Free shipping with minimum $25 purchase. CDs, DVDs, and other merchandise.
Better World Books
New and used books. Free shipping, no minimum purchase. ($3.97 per item outside the U.S.) Funds literacy programs. Carbon offset on shipping.
Books-A-Million
New and used books. Free shipping with minimum $25 purchase. CDs, DVDs, and other merchandise. Books-for-Troops program.
Borders (As of 2008, Amazon no longers operates their online store.)
New and used books. Free shipping with minimum $25 purchase. CDs, DVDs, and other merchandise.
Powell's Books
New and used books. Free shipping with minimum $50 purchase. CDs, DVDs, and other merchandise.
Strand Bookstore
New and used books. No free shipping. CDs, DVDs, and other merchandise.
Canada
Chapters Indigo
New and used books. Free shipping in Canada with minimum $39 CAD purchase. CDs, DVDs, and other merchandise.
Germany
Bol.de
New books. Free shipping in Germany with minimum EUR 20 purchase. CDs, DVDs, games, and other merchandise.
Buch.de
New books. Free shipping in Germany with minimum EUR 20 purchase. CDs, DVDs, games, and other merchandise.
Lesen.de
New books. Free shipping in Germany with minimum EUR 20 purchase (order may also have to contain a book). CDs, DVDs, games, and other merchandise.
Libri.de
New books. Free shipping in Germany with minimum EUR 20 purchase (I think). CDs, DVDs, games, and other merchandise.
Thalia.de
New books. Free shipping in Germany with minimum EUR 20 purchase. CDs, DVDs, games, and other merchandise.
Sweden
Adlibris
New books. Free B-post shipping.
h:ström - Antikvariat & Bokhandel
New and used books. No free shipping.
Bokus
New books. Free shipping (19 SEK for 2-day). DVDs, games, and other merchandise.
SF-Bokhandeln
New books (science-fiction, fantasy). Free shipping with minimum 1500 SEK purchase. DVDs, games, and other merchandise.
United Kingdom
The Book Depository
New books. Free shipping, worldwide.
Waterstone's
New books. Free standard shipping in the UK. Other merchandise.
Find a local bookstore
Booksense
Use Booksense to locate a local, independent bookseller in the U.S. or Canada.
Ebooks
Got a Kindle? No problem.
All Romance eBooks
Romance and women's fiction.
Fictionwise.com (Owned by Barnes and Noble.)
Genre and mainstream fiction, nonfiction. For the Kindle, look for unencrypted MultiFormat eBook and download the .mobi format.
Linking
The full address for this post is
http://mrbobowski.com/blog/books/090412-antiamazon.html
You can download or hotlink the 
chicklet for your website. Please link it back here or to your favorite non-Amazon bookstore. Right click on the image to download or get the address for hotlinking.
Corrections and Additions
I haven't got comments running yet, no matter what the little link says. If you want me to add a bookstore to the list or you see outdated information (or you just want to say hi) email antiamazon@mrbobowski.com or tweet @ me if you're on Twitter.
If you are sending me links to stores with pages in a language other than English or Swedish, please include:
- whether the store sells new and/or used books,
- whether they have free shipping and the requirements,
- what else they sell.
(It just makes it easier for me to add them quickly.)
1 Nice is used here expressly to describe the state of not being Amazon.com. No promises are made regarding the individual personability of merchants on this list. Also, none of these are affiliate links. I got no ulterior motive.
