Tag Archives: collectible books
Amazon won’t require Pro-Merchant status for collectible book sellers
Amazon’s Marketplace managers must have gotten an earful from outraged booksellers upset about its plans to charge dealers $40 a month to sell collectible books. Without much explanation, they’ve dropped the requirement. I’ve never seen Amazon back off a proposed policy change as quickly as this one. Both sides have some merit. Pro-Merchants, on average, [...]
Jumping through hoops to sell collectible books on Amazon
Amazon’s new restrictions on selling collectible books go into effect today. Last week, they published this warning that sellers must apply for pre-approval to list collectibles such as signed books, first editions, etc. This is a “category” approval, the same red tape you’d face if you began selling toys on Amazon during the Christmas season. [...]
Q&A: Are recalled or banned books valuable?
QUESTION: There have been a few books in the news recently from authors who claimed that the events they wrote about in their memoirs were true when in fact they were fictionalized. Recently one was said to be “recalled” by the publisher. If you can find copies, perhaps these are good books to invest in [...]
Book dealers urged to abandon Amazon, eBay and AbeBooks
Guy Weller over at the Bookshop Blog has some advice for those who use Amazon, eBay and AbeBooks to list their used and rare books: Take a hike! These megasites are “dictating far too much to us as to how we should fashion our listings, and how we should list on their sites … This [...]
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