In NZ the government has declared that raising the literacy and numeracy rate is extremely important to the economic growth of the country. That is very commendable but…. THEN WHY THE H*LL ARE BOOKS SO DARN EXPENSIVE HERE? No wonder nobody reads. It’s like 3-4x more expensive buying the book than the DVD. Even Blue-Ray disks are cheaper. For the price of a mid price book I can get the DVD and the DVD player to match.
So my civil duty it is to tell my fellow new zealanders about www.bookdepository.co.uk. It’s like Amazon but it has a distinct advantage…..FREE GLOBAL DELIVERY!!!! Now that is music to a Kiwi’s ears. No more waiting until you have US$150 worth of books to order from Amazon. Get them in your post box for the price of a book. And that price being that what the book really costs – before our kind bookstores put the gold-lining on the price.
Bookdepository has a very good selection of books and is sometimes even cheaper than Amazon (depending on exchange rate). The fastest delivery (and we have already had dozens) is 4 days with 5-6 being the norm. The longest was about 2 weeks. Every book is sent separately so books that are not in stock don’t delay books that are in stock.
All you bookworms out there rejoice and order to your hearts content!
This will cause more kiwi $$$ to go off-shore and will force our bookstores out of business. But…see it from the positive side. You’re doing the country a service. You are supporting the upward trend of literacy and abolishing these ridiculously high retail book prices. Let’s force them to re-think what they are doing.
Oh and… Mr. Key you can probably save a whole lot of tax-$$$ if you start ordering schoolbooks from overseas 
