On Not Linking to Amazon
Every so often someone in the book industry tries to make an argument that websites should not link to the one site where everyone knows that they can find the books they want (Amazon). This time [Read More ...]
ABA
ABA Gained 87 New Members in 2016, Including Bookcafe Volume Books
The American Bookseller Association revealed on Wednesday that 87 new bookstores had opened for business and joined the ABA in 2016. Spread across 32 states and the District of Columbia, the new [Read More ...]
Libro.fm Brings Audiobooks to ABA Member Stores
The American Booksellers Association has announced a partnership with Libro.fm, an audiobook distributor, which will add the latter's audiobook platform to IndieCommerce, the ABA's retail platform [Read More ...]
Stop Kidding Yourself: The ABA Does Not Represent Indie Booksellers
There are many commonly held beliefs in book world: that AAP stats reflect the entire industry, that Nielsen can accurately track ebook or print sales, that The Authors Guild represents authors, and [Read More ...]
Fact Check: If Almost Forty Percent of ABA Members Aren’t Actually Indie Bookstores, Can We Really Say There’s a Revival?
For the past several years it has been fashionable to write about the indie bookstore revival, but there's a huge problem with many of the stories: they cite data which doesn't stand up to scrutiny. [Read More ...]
ABA Expands Anti-Amazon FUD Campaign
The Rockies may crumble, Gibraltar may tumble. They're only made of clay, but the ABA's hostility towards Amazon is here to stay. The American Bookseller Association continued its anti-Amazon [Read More ...]
Amazon Books and the Robinson-Patman Act from an Antitrust Law Perspective
by Randy J Morris Following my most recent antitrust article looking into the Authors United Amicus Brief (which you can read here), I was contacted for my thoughts concerning Amazon's new book store [Read More ...]
Amazon Books, Antitrust Law, ETC
The American Bookseller Association continued its campaign of viewing Amazon with alarm and suspicion this week. ABA CEO Oren Teicher had a few choice words to say about Amazon and its new retail [Read More ...]
ABA Now Sells Books From the IndieBound Site, But You Won’t Want to Buy Them
Here's a bit of news that has me scratching my head: On Tuesday, October 27, the American Booksellers Association launched a test designed to increase traffic to member stores — and to their [Read More ...]
What The Authors Guild’s Mary Rasenberger Isn’t Saying About Amazon
No one at The Authors Guild or the American Bookseller's Association was able to find an hour in their busy schedules to publicly debate their recent calls for an antitrust investigation into [Read More ...]
Kobo, ABA Renew Partnership For Another Year Even Though Indie Booksellers aren’t Selling Many eBooks
If you were surprised in late May when Kobo revived its defunct affiliate partnership with US indie booksellers then this next piece of news will knock your socks off. Late last month the American [Read More ...]
Kobo Revives Partnership With Indie US Booksellers
So little has been written over the past couple years about Kobo's partnership with indie booksellers in the US, that it would be easy to assume that the partnership were defunct. Kobo would like [Read More ...]
New Reports Reveal that 2013 was a Dickensian Time for Indie Booksellers
The American Bookseller Association and its UK counterpart have each released new details this week on their membership rolls, and they have revealed that this is both the best of times and the worst [Read More ...]
400+ Authors Will be in 256 Indie Bookstores Next Saturday
There's a good chance that you're going to be busy shopping on the Saturday after Thanksgiving this year,but if you have time you might want to stop by your local indie bookstore and meet a local [Read More ...]
ABA Reports That the Kobo Partnership With Indie Booksellers is Now Twice as Large as the Google Partnership it Replaced
It's been some nine months since Kobo and the American Bookseller Association launched a new affiliate partnership, and the ABA is more than pleased with its success. According to the ABA spokesman [Read More ...]