Amazon grills new sellers about inventory sources

Amazon grills new sellers about inventory sources

From the Auctionbytes blog, a letter from a new Amazon bookseller:

Amazon sent a notice saying my account is under investigation. … They say they want me to prove shipments with delivery confirmation numbers, provide names and contact numbers of my suppliers, provide lists of inventory and in-stock items and predicted sales, any websites, any sales histories on other sites, etc etc. I sent what I could of this, but I am not giving up my supplier’s name and numbers. I showed that my eBay and Amazon seller names are identical and I have been a Top Rated Power Seller with 99.7% positive feedback and etc.

Read the rest at Auctionbytes.

E-books, hardcovers, online booksellers and stores: Why everybody can win

From the head honcho at Borders:

…price is only part of the picture; after all, the combined efforts of paperbacks, libraries, and used books have yet to drive the $25 hardcover to extinction. For consumers, the lure of new releases at $10 apiece is at least equaled by the appeal of being able to download exactly the book you want, when and where you want it, and carry dozens of titles around with you in a package that weighs less than a single hardcover.

via Fortune Tech.

Cambridge graduate faces jail over antique book thefts

A Cambridge graduate, William Jacques, faces jail after being found guilty of stealing antique books worth £40,000 from a world-famous library.

Telegraph.

Washington library mulls tighter security in light of book thefts

…concern that the growing market for used books online could be an incentive for more theft in the future.”

In the longer term, KRL plans to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of installing a radio frequency tag system to protect its collection.

Radio frequency tags are used to identify each book, and books that are not properly checked out set off an alarm at the exit.

via Port Orchard Independent.

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