Falling book sales
As a small seller my Amazon book sales are so poor now (nothing in three weeks) that I took the risk of listing the 5 of the same titles on another platform. In the past month i have sold four of these listed on the other platform (priced £15 to £36), none on amazon of course. I don’t know why my books don’t sell on Amazon and I’m getting beyond caring, but it is clearly NOT because they are old, overpriced, ‘market forces’ blah blah…
Just saying…
Falling book sales
As a small seller my Amazon book sales are so poor now (nothing in three weeks) that I took the risk of listing the 5 of the same titles on another platform. In the past month i have sold four of these listed on the other platform (priced £15 to £36), none on amazon of course. I don’t know why my books don’t sell on Amazon and I’m getting beyond caring, but it is clearly NOT because they are old, overpriced, ‘market forces’ blah blah…
Just saying…
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Seller_Wqg5EgqxuOwDD
They’re probably invisible within the current catalogue. It’s a problem that many of us have been banging on about for years.
Seller_taDBgt7LctucW
Over the past few months I’ve probably sold close to a hundred books on ebay for every one that I’ve sold on Amazon.
Ebay pays the bills. Amazon pays pocket money.
Seller_LKjg1QRrO36Yq
I’ve been attempting to list a lot of mainstream books on Amazon today but finding them using title/author search is hard work.
The standard UK editions are generall buried under an avalanche of bogus overpriced duplicates, foreign language translations and other irrelevances.
With books that are now in the public domain, respectable and/or scholarly editions are even harder to find, hidden as they are under a mess of PoDs, wikipedia and project Gutenberg rip-offs.
How an ‘ordinary’ book buyer can find their way through the maze is anyone’s guess.
It’s my suspicion that many buyers across all categories (but especially books) must now find Amazon to be an increasingly alienating and unfriendly experience.
Seller_jWPpFxXshwSeI
My experience is the same with book selling with the added strange occurrence (it’s happened several times) that I will go without sales for quite some time and then, suddenly, I sell as many as 6 books on the same day, usually at the weekend. Then everything goes quiet again. Can anyone explain? I, too, am thinking of trying ‘another platform’. Thanks.
Seller_DQUCTWPjSm8fp
Three Weeks!! I sold a book as recently as 2019. If you want to sell books at the price they’re worth Amazon isn’t the way to go. Buyers want something for nothing.
Seller_UOMjoi1uvtoaD
Yes, Amazon book sales are dire but with all this talk about best place to sell books and ‘other platforms’ I can’t understand why there is no mention of Abebooks. True they are wholly owned by Amazon but they are run as a seperate organisation and our sales on that site are always many times greater than here. They are much more user friendly too and appear to understand booksellers. The auction sites are ok but each listing is laborious so only our more expensive books are worth listing there. Biblio sales are small and we gave up on Alibris years ago. Ironically, Amazon reps were at the PBFA York Bookfair back in around the year 2000 and were persuading us booksellers to join their site which was just taking off. So, booksellers helped Amazon to grow and now we are being cast aside and ignored. We truly are the collateral damage of Amazon’s success.
