This is a repost of "my original list":http://bloggis.se/mrbobowski/67875 (with a few changes). There's plenty of chatter about how Amazon isn't nice, but as long as they're making money hand over fist, they have no incentive to _be_ nice. So... Reading is good. Amazon.com... not so much. Buy your books and media from somebody nice[1]. "U.S.":#US | "Canada":#CA | "Germany":#DE | "Sweden":#SE | "U.K.":#UK | "Find a local independent store":#local | "Ebooks":#ebooks | "Linking":#link | "Additions and Corrections":#updates h3(#US). United States "*Alibris*":http://www.alibris.com New and used books. Free shipping with minimum $49 purchase of qualifying books. CDs and DVDs. "*Barnes & Noble*":http://www.barnesandnoble.com New and used books. Free shipping with minimum $25 purchase. CDs, DVDs, and other merchandise. "*Better World Books*":http://www.betterworld.com New and used books. Free shipping, no minimum purchase. ($3.97 per item outside the U.S.) Funds literacy programs. Carbon offset on shipping. "*Books-A-Million*":http://www.booksamillion.com New and used books. Free shipping with minimum $25 purchase. CDs, DVDs, and other merchandise. Books-for-Troops program. "*Borders*":http://www.borders.com/ _(As of 2008, Amazon no longers operates their online store.)_ New and used books. Free shipping with minimum $25 purchase. CDs, DVDs, and other merchandise. "*Powell's Books*":http://www.powells.com New and used books. Free shipping with minimum $50 purchase. CDs, DVDs, and other merchandise. "*Strand Bookstore*":http://www.strandbooks.com New and used books. No free shipping. CDs, DVDs, and other merchandise. h3(#CA). Canada "*Chapters Indigo*":http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/ New and used books. Free shipping in Canada with minimum $39 CAD purchase. CDs, DVDs, and other merchandise. h3(#DE). Germany "*Bol.de*":http://www.bol.de/ New books. Free shipping in Germany with minimum EUR 20 purchase. CDs, DVDs, games, and other merchandise. "*Buch.de*":http://www.buch.de/ New books. Free shipping in Germany with minimum EUR 20 purchase. CDs, DVDs, games, and other merchandise. "*Lesen.de*":http://lesen.de/ New books. Free shipping in Germany with minimum EUR 20 purchase (order may also have to contain a book). CDs, DVDs, games, and other merchandise. "*Libri.de*":http://www.libri.de/ New books. Free shipping in Germany with minimum EUR 20 purchase (I think). CDs, DVDs, games, and other merchandise. "*Thalia.de*":http://www.thalia.de/ New books. Free shipping in Germany with minimum EUR 20 purchase. CDs, DVDs, games, and other merchandise. h3(#SE). Sweden "*Adlibris*":http://www.adlibris.com New books. Free B-post shipping. "*h:ström - Antikvariat & Bokhandel*":http://www.hstrom.nu/ab/ New and used books. No free shipping. "*Bokus*":http://www.bokus.com New books. Free shipping (19 SEK for 2-day). DVDs, games, and other merchandise. "*SF-Bokhandeln*":http://sfbok.se New books (science-fiction, fantasy). Free shipping with minimum 1500 SEK purchase. DVDs, games, and other merchandise. h3(#UK). United Kingdom "*The Book Depository*":http://www.bookdepository.co.uk New books. Free shipping, worldwide. "*Waterstone's*":http://waterstones.com New books. Free standard shipping in the UK. Other merchandise. h3(#local). Find a local bookstore "*Booksense*":http://www.booksense.com/ Use Booksense to locate a local, independent bookseller in the U.S. or Canada. h3(#ebooks). Ebooks Got a Kindle? No problem. "*All Romance eBooks*":http://www.allromanceebooks.com/ Romance and women's fiction. "*Fictionwise.com*":http://www.fictionwise.com/ _(Owned by Barnes and Noble.)_ Genre and mainstream fiction, nonfiction. For the Kindle, look for unencrypted MultiFormat eBook and download the .mobi format. h3(#link). Linking The full address for this post is @http://mrbobowski.com/blog/books/090412-antiamazon.html@ You can download or hotlink the !http://mrbobowski.com/rdr/anti-amazon.gif! chicklet for your website. Please link it back here or to your favorite non-Amazon bookstore. Right click on the image to download or get the address for hotlinking. h3(#updates). Corrections and Additions I haven't got comments running yet, no matter what the little link says. If you want me to add a bookstore to the list or you see outdated information (or you just want to say hi) email antiamazon@mrbobowski.com or "tweet @ me":http://twitter.com/mrbobowski if you're on Twitter. If you are sending me links to stores with pages in a language other than English or Swedish, please include: * whether the store sells new and/or used books, * whether they have free shipping and the requirements, * what else they sell. (It just makes it easier for me to add them quickly.) fn1. _Nice is used here expressly to describe the state of not being Amazon.com. No promises are made regarding the individual personability of merchants on this list. Also, none of these are affiliate links. I got no ulterior motive._