This has been rumored for at least a couple of years, so it’s nice to see it finally arrive. In case you didn’t get the message:
The Amazon.com Rare & Collectible Books store was launched today. This beta launch is an important milestone in our efforts to improve the customer experience for book collectors on Amazon.com.
During this beta phase, we will be testing new features and gathering feedback from buyers and sellers. Please visit the store and let us know what you think. The new store can be accessed through the Amazon.com Books store, or you can see it now by clicking on the following this link.
The store features launched today include advanced search and dedicated browse functionality, product merchandising, and customer-facing content about rare and collectible books. We would also like you to know that only collectible listings that have the collectible attributes (Collectible Edition, Signed By, and Dust Jacket Condition) filled out will be indexed and discoverable from our store. It is therefore very important for you to populate as many of the attributes you can on each of your collectible listings.
For more details about the new store, please see our Seller Success announcement:
http://www.amazonsellercommunity.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=183991
We also want to invite you to participate in the new Rare and Collectible Books Community forum. The forum is accessible from the main store page, or you can go there directly using the following URL:
http://www.amazon.com/tag/rare%20books/forum/
We appreciate your continued involvement in improving the customer experience for book collectors on Amazon.com. If you have further feedback or suggestions, please write to us at collectible-books-feedback@amazon.com.
Thank you for selling on Amazon.com.
Amazon Books Category Management Team
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3 Comments
Due to AZ Buyer favoritism and lameness in being hip to scams – I would not go anywhere near this
Also I would expect Bottom feeders – as AZ is a bargain basement
I have sold to store and other Sellers – but an “higher caliber” book Buyer woudl be sorely dissappointed in descriptions.
Though AZ does not separate DJ and Book condition Sellers must average the Condtion to fit AZ’s Condition Guidelines. This hurts both Buyer and Seller.
A book can be excellent Fine+ and its DJ can be due to a careless tear a Good-. According to guidelines and “judgement calls” this can be Acceptable to Very Good. A DJ is a large percentage of the price – so the averaging would kill it. Other factors to be considered.
In short, AZ doesn’t have the “clientele” for this operation. In addition to competing with itself a la the ABeBooks purchase. I feel that should have been blocked as anti-trust monopolization
I don’t see a Book Store link?
I see Books in general make-your-own-page set up.
Also AZ has a $4,500 limit – books can go much much higher.
What is the price cap?
Hey Steve, waiting for you to ‘cover’ this topic. I usually wait to see what ‘your people’ think about this (and yes, you have people! lol!!!).
I just ‘test drove’ the link. I got all the collectibles, but as I selected ‘signed’ and ‘first edition,’ I sometimes got signed, and some were ‘firsts.’ So, Amazon isn’t ready with SIGNED FIRSTS, yet!
But, I think this will be helpful to those deluged by every single copy of a book by ever minor seller online. The problem is, a signed first of a tenth edition (varied publishers) is different from a TRUE First.
I hope they catch on.
My author is an obscure Brit, and there ARE only two online, but trying Stephen King Firsts (signed) was still a lot to hoe through.
Debbie