[Ipg-smz] NYT: Amazon not doing enough (or even much) to squash counterfeit/fake books

[Tara Calishain]

I sold books on Amazon for over 12 years FBM and over four years FBA. That
article doesn't even scratch the surface. There's no mention of PDF copies
delivered by email, or textbook pirates selling flash drives with books on
them to satisfy Amazon's requirements for digital delivery. Or lowballing
prices to confuse repricing algorithms and then jerking your inventory, or
putting up a fake listing with a lowball to get other merchants' offerings
repriced, then buying the mispriced inventory.

Between all the schemes and the scams and Amazon's ever-increasing fees,
I'm not sure you can do book FBA on Amazon while playing it straight, and
I'm glad I'm out of it.

Tara


On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 11:27 AM Daniel Dern <dern at pair.com> wrote:

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> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/23/technology/amazon-domination-bookstore-books.html
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> (includes a quote from Kevin Savetz)
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> Sigh.
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> (And I see that the never-finished, never-issued 2nd edition of my own
> Internet book is available, used, for a modest $730...)
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