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Does anyone have a good online bookselling that isn't Amazon? I started using abebooks before realizing its Amazon owned. bookdepository.com is good, but not great. oreilly.com is good for their stuff. B&N is OK I guess.

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There's Powell's Books. http://www.powells.com

bookdepository.com is also owned by Amazon, since 2011. It's hard to escape their grasp on the market.

Sadly this likely won't help you but in Brazil they've got one site, called Estante Virtual [1], for a network of almost 1,500 independent used bookstores across the country. Even though I no longer live there, I use them as much as possible (ordering books to friends homes if they're going home to visit). While the site charges these indy stores between $12-40 USD per month for the chance to sell on their site, I would think it'd still be a good deal for the stores.

I'm not sure if this kind of used bookstore network exists in the English-speaking world but I'd love to know if it does.

1 - http://www.estantevirtual.com.br/

https://alibris.com gets many of its books from libraries rotating their collections. Think of it as adopting a "rescue book." :-)

Most of my physical book copies have come from http://subterraneanpress.com the last few years. Mostly because at this point when I want a physical copy of a book it tends to be a special edition/signed copy.

Bookdepository.com is also Amazon owned.

eBay! A huge number of independent bookstores sell books, both used and new, online via eBay.

I like to buy specialty books directly from publishers. Art books are often difficult to find elsewhere, and tech books tend to come with nice extras.

I used to prefer FNAC, but they only exist in France.

We have FNAC in Italy :)

And in Spain :P

"As of 2015, the company has stores in France, Belgium, Brazil, Monaco, Morocco, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland" (Wikipedia)

It seems they sold off their Italian stores in 2013.

Never used them but wordery.com might be an option

I think half.com is pretty good.

bookdepository.com is also Amazon-owned.

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