the strangling of the online book biz | Selling

keziak · 2024-09-30T13:46:13.554000Z

Was thinking today about how bad it's been getting and now even worse. There is strong inflation in the prices of books to source. T his year I lost Salvation Army and a discount store due to prices jacked up across the board. Lost a catalog I used to buy heavily from. Prices up across the board. Went to a library sale, prices doubled. In my town a collapse in donations of good books to libraries. Marketplace a desert. Tons of competition. And the latest is Amazon changing their website so it's nearly impossible to reprice AND sellers who do not grasp the problem may start gutting prices for the rest of us. Are any of the rest of you booksellers facing similar problems? Maybe not if you are connected to a bookstore where you get all your books.

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