Bookselling site Biblio is raising its selling fees as of January 1, 2025. “This is bad news,” a reader shared with EcommerceBytes. For those unfamiliar with the site, it describes itself as follows: “BIBLIO is a marketplace where thousands of Read more
Bookselling marketplace Alibris shared some news about a partnership with a Canadian retailer on social media on Wednesday. It didn’t provide a link to more information, and visiting its website revealed the site was down. Alibris shared the following post Read more
These are especially tough times for independent bookstores due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which is keeping shoppers at home. Author James Patterson is doing something to help by donating half a million dollars to a new grant program. Patterson partnered Read more
Amazon is giving away some translated foreign-language ebooks “in hopes of showing more readers the joys of translated text,” explaining its reasoning as follows: “The translation of literature plays a vital role in global entertainment, but it’s also essential in Read more
AbeBooks.com is celebrating its 20th anniversary this month. Founded in Victoria, British Columbia in Canada in 1996, it was acquired by Amazon in December 2008, but its site remains independently run. Spokesperson Richard Davies told us this month the site Read more
Alibris is suffering latency issues when it comes to updating inventory leading to a host of issues for its booksellers. A seller explainedhow the delay in inventory uploads was impacting her business. “We like to upload price changes daily but when Read more
