Following a well-publicized “Banned Bookseller Week” protest from some bookseller customers over AbeBooks’ plan to abruptly remove booksellers in South Korea, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Russia from their platform at the end of November, the company reversed itself — to everyone’s surprise. “The matter was apparently resolved when Sally Burdon, an Australian bookseller who is president of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, spoke with Arkady Vitrouk, chief executive of AbeBooks. In a Wednesday email to her members after their talk, Ms. Burdon said Mr. Vitrouk apologized for the platform’s behavior ‘a number of times. and said booksellers in […]
