From The Bookseller: The Office of Fair Trading has cleared Amazon to take over The Book Depository, ruling the merger would not lead to a lessening of competition within the UK book industry. The OFT decided there was limited pre-merger competition between the two companies and found that competition within Amazon Marketplace would continue to be strong after the takeover. It said The Book Depository only accounted for between 2-4% of the online market for physical books, and that TBD had most of its growth in overseas markets rather than the UK. During its investigation, the...

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This is really cool. The Book Depository has a site that will show you who just bought a book from them, what the book was, and where the purchase was sent. New stuff pops up every second. Mesmerizing. ...

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