Waterstones - Buy online, collect instore or download eBooks
Humans make the best search engines - the books, knowledge and expertise of Waterstones' stores are at booklovers’ fingertips. Waterstones, the leading specialist high street book retailer, also hosts it's own popular, online retail website offering a wealth of books and book knowledge and access to expert booksellers from Waterstones' stores around the country.
Waterstones.com gives customers the service, knowledge and genuine love of books that they have come to expect from Waterstones' specialist high street stores and provides Affiliate members with a known and trusted alternative to Amazon.co.uk and other book sites.
Waterstones.com is regionally competitive with other online book retailer and in addition to bespoke online promotions, Waterstones.com reflects the key high street campaigns such as ‘Book of the Month’ and ‘Waterstone’s Recommends’ - ensuring maximum campaign exposure both in store and online.
We have put our booksellers right at the heart of Waterstones.com. Their passion for books, proven expertise in all genres along with their popular bespoke recommendations, fully personalised responses and suggestions will enable us to match our customers, whatever they read, to their perfect book.
Features and functions of Waterstones.com include:
A little about Waterstone's, in their own words......
Waterstone's mission is to be the leading Bookseller on the High Street and online providing customers the widest choice, great value and expert advice from a team passionate about Bookselling. Waterstone's aims to interest and excite its customers and continually inspire people to read and engage in books.
Now part of HMV Group, Waterstone's first opened in Old Brompton Road, London, in 1982 and currently trades from more than 300 stores, on high streets and in shopping centres, and through numerous university campuses in the UK, Republic of Ireland and continental Europe (Brussels and Amsterdam) as well as on the Isle of Man, Jersey and the Isle of Wight.
No two Waterstone's bookshops are the same. Sophisticated stock management systems ensure that each bookshop has its own unique range profile and space at the front of store to promote a choice of books picked by that branch. These 'Recommends' bays are genuine staff picks.
Our reputation is built upon the knowledge and enthusiasm of our 4,500 booksellers. Our booksellers love great books and are dedicated to finding the titles that our customers want.
We strive to create places where people who are interested in books can go to browse, a place that encourages new readers to expand horizons and that is home to booksellers that are passionate about the books that they sell.
An average sized Waterstone's store merchandises a range of around 30,000 individual books, with 200,000 titles in the largest store. With over one million books in print, and around 120,000 new consumer titles published every year (compared with around 10,000 in the 1950s), the expert recommendations and advice of the company's booksellers are key ingredients in its success.