[Fission]

I buy physical books like crazy. Unfortunately, I can similarly describe Amazon's book shipping practices.

Some of the things Amazon's done to the books I've ordered:

- shipped in a huge box without padding, so books bounce around inside the box, crushing their sides and corners

- shipped in mailing envelope, arriving bent

- shipped out of the warehouse with large rips in the cover and inner pages

Apparently way back when, Amazon was shipping books shrinkwrapped between two pieces of cardboard, which protects them. They certainly aren't taking that level of care now.

If there's a bookstore (marketplace) with decent inventory that actually takes care of the books they ship, I'd pay a premium.