Articles Archive for 15 April 2008
Reading Fiction »
Remember how Australia’s attempt to compete with Amazon, Fishpond, cleverly convinced me to order my first books from them? The first book just arrived, in under a week, which is obviously not as fast as Amazon.de used to deliver to me in Germany, but I can accept that the distance across Australia to my isolated suburb on the west coast is a whole lot further than anywhere within Germany. So for speed, they get a check mark.
Packaging is fine too. They don’t use the heavy cardboard that Amazon.de sent me, …