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Posted on 06 / 04 / 2006

When browsing the web for 'Peter the Rabbit' books for my children's I cam across the Penguin website. I actually didn't realise they sold books direct, I thought they were just a publisher. The site looks nice and is obviously a professional setup, all I needed to do was typing in 'Peter Rabbit' in the search box in the top left had corner and it came up 119 results to pick from. However when comparing to Amazon they had 967 results for: peter rabbit. The only problem with Amazon is plenty of their search results are duplicate entries or books discontinued. Penguin do not seem to have this problem with all the results being different, with no duplicates. Luckily I needed item totaling more than £25, which entitled me to free UK delivery (I think Amazon have a £19 limit which is superior). If I did order under £25: delivery was £2.50 per basket, plus 50p per item. This seem quite high in my opinion, certainly more than Amazon would charge. The book descriptions on the whole were fairly basic for the books I tried, and none included user reviews. To be honest I would use Amazon for any title not published by Penguin. But if your spending over £25 and require a book published by Penguin then look no further.

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