{"id":9017,"date":"2023-04-04T15:50:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T15:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/amazon-to-shut-down-book-depository-online-store\/"},"modified":"2023-04-04T15:50:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T15:50:24","slug":"amazon-to-shut-down-book-depository-online-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/amazon-to-shut-down-book-depository-online-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon to shut down Book Depository online store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <p><a href=\"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/online-workshops-list\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-496\" src=\"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/RETAIL-ONLINE-TRAINING-728-X-90.png\" alt=\"Retail Online Training\" width=\"729\" height=\"91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/RETAIL-ONLINE-TRAINING-728-X-90.png 729w, https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/RETAIL-ONLINE-TRAINING-728-X-90-300x37.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 729px) 100vw, 729px\" \/><\/a><\/p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-133652\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Shutterstock_1837702276-696x464.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Shutterstock_1837702276-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Shutterstock_1837702276-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Shutterstock_1837702276-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Shutterstock_1837702276-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Shutterstock_1837702276-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Shutterstock_1837702276-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Shutterstock_1837702276.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" alt=\"Book Depository\" title=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\/\/ <\/span>Amazon will close Gloucester-based online shop Book Depository at the end of April following staff reduction announcement.<\/h6>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\/\/ To find out more, visit Retail Gazette\u2019s sister site, Charged Retail: click here<\/span><\/h6>\n<hr\/>\n<p>In 2011, Amazon acquired the online store, gaining more control over the UK book trade. A year prior to the purchase, Book Depository had operating profit of \u00a32.3m on sales of \u00a369m.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"al\">CLICK HERE TO READ ABOUT THE PLANNED RESTRUCTURING<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Click here to sign up to Retail Gazette\u2018s free daily email newsletter<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<footer>\n<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/online-workshops-list\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-496\" src=\"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/RETAIL-ONLINE-TRAINING-728-X-90.png\" alt=\"Retail Online Training\" width=\"729\" height=\"91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/RETAIL-ONLINE-TRAINING-728-X-90.png 729w, https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/RETAIL-ONLINE-TRAINING-728-X-90-300x37.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 729px) 100vw, 729px\" \/><\/a><\/p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\/\/ Amazon will close Gloucester-based online shop Book Depository at the end of April following staff reduction announcement. \/\/ To find out more, visit Retail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}