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Ambis	Moving from Amazon to other sites	Lead	[-]
Posts: 1 (10/20/09 04:12:47) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None I've been selling on Amazon for about a year with a thousand titles, pretty successfully. I'm looking to expand into other markets, but fear managing multiple inventories. Alibris's features of listing on many sites seems attractive, but I have the fear of not being priced to each market correctly. I've seen a few third party hosting options, but the price seems a little too large for what I'm doing. Has anyone else made the jump from strictly Amazon to Alibris in order to grow? And, do you think the incremental sales outweigh the additional fees like the .25 per Amazon order, and additional 5% for the affiliate marketplaces? Or another way to ask, when listing with Alibris, what percentage of your sales come from Amazon, Alibris, and Affiliates? Does Alibris share this information as a whole?
george		#1	[-]
Posts: 41 (10/21/09 09:28:07) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I don't know that this will help, I went from Alibris to Amazon. Alibris tends to have a more selective type clientele. I sell about two books on Alibris for every one on Amazon. My books are pricey, no penny books nor even many below $10. At the end of the year I'll go with Alibris to put my books on Amazon as then I'll only have to deal with one listing. For me Alibris doesn't sell near as many books as do their partners, mostly Barnes and Noble with just a very few Borders. I like Alibris because they offer my books on several venues at the price that I set. Hope this helps. glenn
whiteunicorna		#2	[-]
Posts: 555 (10/21/09 09:42:22) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	We actually started with a little over a thousand books on Alibris and all their affilates including a free Amazon (no additional charges other than the extra 5% I believe). At that time a thousand books were required to list here. We then added ABE, then our own site (after about 3-6 months I believe), and we are up to about 10 or so right now including Amazon. Amazon is definitely our biggest seller and our site, Alibris, and ABE switch back and forth for the next three places in sales. If you are going to be expanding to multiple sites, you need to either have an inventory program you can use to upload to multiple sites, see http://www.whiteunicornbo...okinventoryprograms.html for a discussion of some of them, or list somewhere like The Art of Books [AOB] http://theartofbooks.com/ which charges the maximum of $10 or 1% of sales last I looked. Next, if you were to list with Alibris, I would still keep the Amazon account separate since you still have to pay for the Pro Merchant account. We've found that we sell more on Amazon by keeping them separate. This is based on when we switched some years ago when you didn't have to have a Pro Merchant account to list on Amazon through Alibris. Alibris does break down your sales for you on the Seller Dashboard. Ours are broken down into Alibris retail (Consumer and Library) and Partners (BN, Borders, and Others). I don't know if Amazon would be called out if you listed on Amazon through Alibris but I expect so. My 2¢ for what its worth. De DeWayne White http://www.alibris.com/stores/whiteunicornbooks A proud member of the IOBA - http://www.IOBA.org. Last Edited By: whiteunicorna 10/21/09 09:44:28. Edited 1 times.
brennansbooks	abe or amazon	#3	[-]
Posts: 1 (10/25/09 03:29:15) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Hi, I was wondering what would be the best to choose. I've listed on amazon, abe and alibris. Currently Im only on alibris, which do you think would be the better choice to branch out with Abe or Amazon? thanks Cathy
whiteunicorna		#4	[-]
Posts: 560 (10/25/09 13:21:45) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	brennansbooks wrote: Hi, I was wondering what would be the best to choose. I've listed on amazon, abe and alibris. Currently Im only on alibris, which do you think would be the better choice to branch out with Abe or Amazon? thanks Cathy In one sense, that is only a question you can answer but in general I would choose Amazon. Almost any way I look at it, whether you have a small inventory and are willing to enter items one at a time or whether you have a larger general inventory I think you would sell more on Amazon that ABE. At least that's been our experience with a somewhat larger inventory of 8K plus books listed. Just my 2¢ De DeWayne White http://whiteunicornbooks.alibrisstore.com/ A proud member of the IOBA - http://www.IOBA.org.

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