Buy European

In France, I believe that Place des libraires and Librairies indépendantes have a similar system. There are also smaller, local bookshop networks like Librest.

I’ve never ordered on one of those sites, but I’ve used Place des libraires a few times to check if a book was in stock nearby. Most of the time, when I want a book, there’s no emergency, so I just walk to the nearest bookshop and place an order it if they don’t already have it in stock. I only buy used or foreign books online.

This is really cool. I moved to Austria from a country that doesn't basically have Amazon and ordering anything from closest "Amazon country" costs way more than local online shops, but I've taken a stance to continue avoiding Amazon.

So far so good. Initiatives like this will help to have other options!

In Benelux we also have Bol.com as an Amazon alternative.

I have never in my life purchased anything from Amazon and am fully intending to keep it that way.

In Belgium, there's Librel but I think it's only available for the french speaking part of the country.

UK (and I think Ireland) have uk.bookshop.org. It's a US based B-Corp though if that influences anything

Sad that Thalia isn't part of this.