And we can send boxes of books by courier to Amazon, a more economical way of getting copies out (although this involves hidden costs).
When a review copy of Ann's book, Taft, arrived by courier at my house in London, Lucy, staying with me, didn't bother to open it.
The result is "a fascinating and original book" about a minor courier's double life, Elena Lappin wrote in these pages in 2000.
She has protected it with a simple parcel of corrugated cardboard and, as she looks around at the rolls of bubble wrap and the heaps of padded envelopes, a thought comes to her suddenly: why was this "courier" carrying the book wrapped only in brown paper?
Most courier flights are booked 30 to 60 days in advance, with fares at discounts of between 20 and 80percentt.
Mr. Kumar doesn't have to pay FlipKart a single rupee until a courier bearing his books arrives at his door.
Even a medium-sized exhibition may contain 80 artefacts, each of which needs to reach its destination at exactly the right moment (installations for a major show are so tight that courier arrivals are booked on an hour-by-hour schedule).
If a reviewer or critic needs a book urgently, we will have to courier it and incur the cost to avoid missing out," she says.
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An international courier announced that it would ship books from anywhere in the world to Lebanon to replenish Father Sarrouj's collection.
