If you don’t have the Kindle edition of “Selling at Amazon,” here’s your chance to get it free, by clicking on the link below (it’s free through February 5.)
I updated the book this week to include some recent changes regarding the FBA Long Term Storage fees, obtaining IRS Form 1099Ks, and collecting state and local sales taxes through your Marketplace account.
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Have you ever offered an item cheaper on eBay than Amazon? Did you know that doing so can get you booted from Amazon?
People are discovering this across the pond in the United Kingdom, and lots of people are up in arms. From the Daily Mail:
Online shopping giant Amazon has been accused of artificially inflating prices by banning firms that trade on its website from selling goods more cheaply elsewhere on the internet.
Online shopping giant Amazon has been accused of artificially inflating prices by banning firms that trade on its website from selling goods more cheaply elsewhere on the internet.
Thousands of shops and small businesses, ranging from record stores to perfume suppliers, sell their products on Amazon, which has seen its worldwide sales surge by 44 per cent.
Under draconian new restrictions introduced by the American corporation, traders who sell products more cheaply on other sites face expulsion from the Amazon catalogue unless they agree to raise their prices.
Amazon has ordered them to ‘maintain parity between the terms on which you offer or sell each item through Amazon’ and the amount they charge for the same product on other sites.
Last night consumer protection lawyers called for an investigation.
Read more: Amazon accused of bullying small firms and inflating prices | Mail Online.
These guys need to get out of bookselling and into moviemaking:
In the old days, when I was a writer, we used to call this a “man bites dog” story.
Here it is:
Amazon just did a boneheaded thing, and it deserves all the scorn you want to heap on it. Last week, the company offered people cash in exchange for going into retail stores and scanning items using the company’s Price Check smartphone app. If you scanned a product and then purchased it from Amazon rather than the shop you were standing in, Amazon would give you a 5 percent discount on the sale.
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Booksellers boycotting Amazon, while the River threatens to flood them
Lots going on in the bookselling world lately. Try this on for size: Two bookstore chains have declared boycotts against Amazon-published books, and Amazon is rumored to be opening brick-and-mortar stores:
Read more at: Indigo, Books-a-Million boycott Amazon
I never would have dreamed Amazon would open physical bookstores, but stranger things have happened. Five years ago, who would have thought Apple would have arisen from the dead, becoming one of the world’s most valuable companies–in part, by opening some brick-and-mortar stores to showcase its products?
And, if book chains are going to boycott Amazon, what do they have to lose by opening some stores (at least for an experiment) that stock its books and display the Kindle, which it’s betting the farm on, long term?
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By Claire Kirch The Midwest Independent Booksellers Association announced yesterday that Kati Gallagher, the organization's longtime assistant director, has been laid off, effective immediately. Gallagher, previously a bookseller at Brigit Books, ...
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