SIX CRISES, AND A CHALLENGE: a short meditation on the state of online bookselling, 2003 [Kindle Edition]

Stephen Windwalker (Author), Steve Holt (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Stephen Windwalker is the author of Selling Used Books Online: The Complete Guide to Bookselling at Amazon's Marketplace & Other Online Sites, which is available in paperback and in a Kindle Book edition.

This more recent article first appeared in the newsletter of the Independent Online Bookseller's Association (IOBA) in 2003. It focuses on six major problems that vexed online booksellers then and continue to pre-occupy them in 2007:
* the market glut of sellers and available copies;
* artificially low pricing or lowballing;
* the inconsistency of professional standards and ethics among online sellers;
* a wide range of perceived threats related to the Amazon business model;
* selling venue glitches, conspiracies, and performance issues; and
* the coming shakeout.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 16 KB
• Print Length: 10 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Harvard Perspectives Press (November 23, 2007)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B001036AWI
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #561,640 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

I cut my teeth as a writer covering the Cape Cod Baseball League and other sports for what was then called the Cape Cod Standard-Times and later the Boston Globe, studied the craft of writing with Robert Lowell, Kurt Vonnegut, Monroe Engel and Carter Wilson, and served as Fiction Editor of the Harvard Advocate. In 1999 I founded a small independent publishing company called Harvard Perspectives Press (named after two of my favorite institutions from my undergraduate years, the Harvard House of Pizza and the Harvard Wine Company), and it has done astonishingly well, with a couple of niche bestsellers, other work that we have been proud to published, and now some stunning successes with the Kindle publishing platform. I have three wonderful children, and along the way I've been an author, a community organizer, a bookseller, a publishing executive, a marathoner, an elected official, and some other things unsuitable for mention here.