Amazon is picking up eyebrows over time Sell her big book For 2025, which runs from 23 to 28 April – which means that it has a direct competition Independent bookstores shop day.
As a writer Maurice Chrisman Explained in Light HubIndependent Book Shop Day is an annual event organized by the American Book Sellers Association (ABA), which has events, special guests and 1,600 co -book shops in special commercial goods. And this year, it is happening on April 26 (today).
Craiseman said, “I plead with you: If you live near an Indy bookstore (and I know many of us still do not and I hope that one day we all do) then you should go.”
At least, the Indy bookstores are facing an increase in the United States From ABA as per the number of last year. But of course, Amazon is dominant – in 2020, Is an estimate of a House Committee That the company controlled more than 50 % of the online and offline print book market yesterday, and it is even more dominant in e -books.
So it is not a good look at the company for the company to counter the celebration book program across the country.
In fact, Bookshop.org – an Amazon competitor who Partners with Indy Book Stores – Emailed consumers with a note from CEO Andy Hunter described Amazon sales “as a company that has already kept half of the bookstore out of business, controls more than 60 percent of the market and sells more books than all the indi bookstore shops.”
Hunter said, “Amazon people should be ashamed to be responsible for their ‘book sale’ time, but they are ashamed.
Amazon, however, Issued a statement Describing the timing overlap as “unintentional”: “This year our sales dates were decided to adjust to additional partner countries.”
Given the company’s scale, it is possible that the day of the free bookstore shop is barely registered with people in the sale schedule. Nevertheless, ABA’s CEO Elison Hill told the donkey“Best it is irrelevant and worst, it looks like a tactic to hurt small businesses.”