How to sell books & more with Fullfillment by Amazon (FBA)
Real talk about Amazon’s new long term storage fees: The good, the bad, and why avoiding risks is more expensive than avoiding fees.
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Finally, Long Term Storage Fees, covered from every angle…
Early evidence that Amazon sellers of New & Like New condition textbooks are being targeted in counterfeit crackdown.
In this article I analyze what we know and how to quickly stay off Amazon’s radar.
Amazon sends ominous “Textbook Apocalypse” email, and why it might be (mostly) hype.
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Updated 4-28 @ 1pm: One new offer added.
Four Amazon sellers getting out the business.
They’ve named their price and they’re ready to sell.
You have 48 hours. Go.
Sellers feel the competition as FBA merchants rise 65% in one year. First, the good news: Prime memberships are up to 20 million. As an FBA seller, these are your customers. Two things to note about this figure: This is the first time I’ve ever seen Amazon publish numbers. This figure is literally 7+ times […]
I can’t control if you assign significance to this statistic, but you should. This is the biggest beacon of complete Amazon world domination that I’ve ever seen. The following statistic was buried in a March 2012 article in Internet Retailer magazine: 30% of consumers began their product research on Amazon, 13% began their product research […]
I shouldn’t have been amused by this one, but I was. In December thieves infiltrated the Fulfillment By Amazon compound in Murfreesboro TN and made out with $20,000 worth of PlayStation 3’s. They broke into a full tractor trailer and emptied it, undetected. The warehouse had just opened a few months prior. Police suspect it […]
You may notice that some FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon) sellers (I’ve only seen one in fact) have listed their textbooks as being available as part of Amazon‘s textbook rental program. What is the story here? Can FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon) sellers now rent their textbooks? Short answer: Not now. I actually have no information on […]
An interesting article was posted by Wired Magazine today on Amazon‘s third party sellers (that’s us). Specifically, it covers the growth of third party seller’s in Amazon‘s overall revenue, and how third party revenue may have surpassed purchases from Amazon‘s own products. Check out this quote: Third parties sell at least as much dollar-wise on […]
We’re in the middle of textbook season, when nearly everything used in a classroom flies out the door. This is my second year in a row making more in the two weeks after Christmas, than the two weeks before. How is this possible? As covered in the last post, I credit this to taking penny […]
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