Popular online store Book Depository is set to close at the end of April, amid layoffs announced in recent months by parent company Amazon. The UK-based...
The company is also in the process of closing down its cloud storage service Amazon Drive by the end of 2023.
Head of vendor management Andy Chart wrote: “Over the coming weeks, we will complete a winding down of the business, including discontinuing our listings as a marketplace seller and closing our website. Human resource executive Rachel Koh, who studied literature in secondary school and junior college, needed two copies of every book on the reading list – one to annotate and a clean copy for exams.
“I also have more disposable income now... so I just buy locally because Book Depository takes quite a long time to ship,” she said.
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