Following the surfacing of Brooke Warner’s HuffPo piece explaining Amazon’s recent initiative to let third parties win the buy box on books to those who were unaware, both the IPBA and the Authors Guild have posted on why this is bad. But the bigger and more important question for the industry is whether anything can be done about the situation. To review, the change is part of revised third-party seller rules Amazon first announced last November, for implementation as of March 1, 2017. They did say at that time, “Sellers will be able to compete for the Buy Box for Books […]
