Barnes&Noble to Offer Same Day Delivery
from the finally-guing-the-pieces-together dept
Announced in WSJ today (will update when posted on free-access sites) that B&N will start testing same-day delivery of books in New York City. I've been pining for this for ages -- two B&Ns on my way home, but since their web site can't tell me that a book/DVD I want is in stock at any given store (and hold/deliver it), I just order from Amazon. They'll use bike messengers & delivery vans but only charge the standard delivery fee of $3.95 -- same price as snail delivery, and far cheaper than the $10.95 B&N and Amazon charge for next day delivery. Update by Mike: Here's the free News.com link to the same story.
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