They’re calling it Banned Bookseller Week: More than 250 antiquarian booksellers in 24 countries are pulling their inventory off Amazon-owned AbeBooks this week to protest the company’s removal of booksellers from South Korea, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Russia. The biggest international marketplace for secondhand and rare books, AbeBooks told the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers that it was scaling back because “it is no longer viable for us to operate in these countries due to increasing costs and complexities.” The company told the NYT the removals are because “our third-party payment service provider is closing at the end of the […]
