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Book Depository (previously The Book Depository) was a Gloucester, United Kingdom based online book seller. Founded by a former Amazon employee, it operated from 2004 to 2023.
In 2005, Amazon announced Amazon Prime as a membership service offering free two-day shipping within the contiguous United States on all eligible purchases for an annual fee of $79 (equivalent to $123 in 2023) and discounted one-day shipping rates.
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Amazon is raising its free shipping threshold for some customers. To qualify for free shipping, non-Prime members typically have to purchase an order totaling at least $25.
Amazon Prime Air, or simply Prime Air, is a drone delivery service operated by Amazon. The service uses delivery drones to autonomously fly individual packages to customers, and launched in 2022. [1] The service currently operates in two cities in the US, with plans to expand into the UK and Italy in 2024. [2]
Amazon Shipping, which allows sellers to ship Amazon orders or products sold on other sites, has relaunched, the company confirmed Friday.
Amazon websites are country-specific (for example, amazon.com for the US and amazon.co.uk for UK) though some offer international shipping. Visits to amazon.com grew from 615 million annual visitors in 2008, to more than 2 billion per month in 2022. The e-commerce platform is the 14th most visited website in the world.
Users will always have the option to add Amazon packaging to their order for no extra charge at checkout, but the default is boxless shipping, Amazon told Fortune.
Amazon starts to expand its services beyond books. It also starts offering convenience services, such as Free Super Savers Shipping. 2005–2011: Amazon moves into the cloud computing area with Amazon AWS, as well as the crowdsourcing area with Amazon Mechanical Turk.
However, Thriftbooks does sell books via Amazon subsidiary AbeBooks, Amazon, as well other book resellers such as eBay. The platform is also popular for its free shipping with a $15 minimum order (formerly $10 but raised to $15 as of January 2022).