Ironically, Book Depository was founded by Stuart Felton and Andrew Crawford, the latter of whom is an ex-Amazon employee. More recently, Book Depository boasted an offering of over 20 million books, selling their wares worldwide at fair prices and providing avid readers in countries with difficult access to English-language and other international titles with a most valuable resource. ![]() Based in Gloucester, U.K., Book Depository was founded in 2004 with the aim of curating over 6 million different titles to sell, searching beyond the standard international bestseller lists. Given Book Depository’s history, this loss is all the more tragic. The decision to close Book Depository was made as part of a wider set of cutbacks throughout Amazon’s devices and books businesses, which includes a planned 18,000 job redundancies. In a disappointing but not surprising twist, Amazon has decided to shutter Book Depository, one of the U.K.’s leading online book retailers.
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