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

[Tara Calishain]

" for digital delivery"

-- should be "for material delivery."

On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 12:12 PM Tara Calishain <researchbuzz at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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:
>
>>
>>
>> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/23/technology/amazon-domination-bookstore-books.html
>>
>> (includes a quote from Kevin Savetz)
>>
>> Sigh.
>>
>> (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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