Bookseller Revolt: Independents Vacate Abebooks in Solidarity November 6, 2018 – Posted in: Books and Technology, Bookselling / Collecting, bookshops, Content

Banned Booksellers Week has begun with a bang. David Streitfeld’s piece in the New York Times has kicked off what some hope will be a defining moment in the history of online bookselling. For the week of November 5 to 11, 2018, booksellers around the world will remove their inventory from Abebooks, an Amazon company, in a show of support for their brethren in South Korea, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Russia who were told they…

Pinterest meets Amazon at Scroll.Am December 31, 2012

Scroll.Am homepage Imagine taking a Pinterest-style scroll through the Amazon product database.Scroll.Am, was developed by Amsterdam-based designer and med student Jonathan Bouman. Bouman, who derives his motivation from his love of mashups, scrolling and Amazon, built a similar site last year which provided a nifty way to scroll Reddit. Every product leads with a visual and all the data and sharing opportunities you need is just a mouse-over away. Books category home page Clearly applicable to non-new books as…

Amazon by the Numbers December 17, 2012

At 80 million monthly visitors one “could fill 60 Disneylands.” Just imagine if just half of those visitors went to an independent bookshop, either online or in store, and god knows what the trade can do with half of the $9 billion in book sales. They’re not kidding when they pronounce Amazon the “undisputed giant of online retail,” but of course, as we all now, bigger does not automatically equal better… via Mashable

April 3rd, 1995. Amazon sells its first book October 29, 2012

April 3rd, 1995. A day that will live on for a long, long time, for it marks the beginning of the end of bookselling and publishing as we know it. It was on this day the first book was bought from Amazon by a customer. The book was Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies by Douglas Hofstader It was purchased by a John Wainwright who worked for a technology company in the Bay Area. The purchase…

An early look at Amazon September 25, 2012

How about this screenshot of a very early homepage at Amazon.com. I wonder what happened to “Eyes” their “tireless, automated search agent” Amazing stuff. via buzzfeed