Amazon is raising eyebrows with time Its big book sales For 2025, which runs from 23 to April 28 – which means it is directly competing DayThe
As the author Marice Craesman Lit Hub explainedIndependent Bookstore Day is at a bookstore with an annual event, event, special guest and exclusive merchandise organized by the American Booksellers Association (ABA). And this year, it is being held on April 26 (today).
“I request you: If you are in an indi bookstore (and I know that many of us don’t do that yet and I hope we all do one day we will do) but you must go,” said Craesman.
Indi Bookstores are seen to be grown at least in the United States According to the number of last year from the ABAThe However, the Amazon remains dominant – in 2020, Estimate a house committee The company that controls more than 50% of the total online and offline print book market and is more influential on e-books.
So it is not exactly good for its big sales period to compete with the nationwide, celebration bookstore event.
In fact, Bookshop. Org – an Amazon contestant that partner with Indi Bookstore – CEO Andy Hunter’s customers have been emailed by a note “Amazon’s sale” that has already kept half a bookstore in the country, controlling more than 60% of the market and selling more books than all Indi books. “
Hunter said, “Amazon’s people should be responsible for giving them ‘book sales’ time, but they are shameless,” Hunter said.
Amazon, however, To publish a statement Describes the timing overlap as “involuntary”: “Our sales date was set this year to adjust the extra participant countries.”
Giving the company’s scale, it is possible that the independent bookstore Day is just registered with people who have just set sales. Nevertheless, ABA’s CEO Alison Hill told Shakun“Above all it is sensitive and the worst it seems to be a trick to hurt small businesses.”
