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This is another example of how Biblio puts initiatives for its sellers into action. Less talk, more action, seller focused - that’s why you should choose to sell on Biblio.
Biblion, a UK-based listings service, is currently down noting “major problems with our servers.” Launched in April 2000, the site has been growing at a fairly good rate since that time. Subsidiary, Biblion Auctions, remains up and running smoothly. What is especially worth noting, however, is the last line of their short announcement directing users searching for books to AbeBooks. While this is a nice courtesy to users, I am still scratching my head as to why they have set this link up. The link is an affiliate link, not a direct one, meaning Biblion will receive a commission for every sale referred to Abe…. but even so…? To us, it portrays the site (Biblion) as “small potatoes”, when previously we saw it as a strong up-and-coming listings service, especially in the European market.
IOBA recently declared its LACK of independence by taking its membership recruitment to the Alibris discussion board. It order to maintain its postings on the Alibris discussion board, the organization’s representatives chose to compromise its independence and bow before Alibris defer important questions of shipping In a blinded zeal for increasing membership, it has neglected to uphold a basic element of its mission (paragraph 3: “Negotiating with businesses, organizations, and possibly governmental agencies that have an impact on internet bookselling.”) and explicitly deferring questions/problems regarding shipping to Alibris. Also, given metrics from independent online sources, like Alexa and Google Page Rank, comparing it with similar sites, the idea that the listings service gets nearly 100,000 visits per month seems suspect. The other question is how many of those are exclusively for seller maintainance?
As an aside, Alibris’ own interjections on the board are growing more and more - I have to wonder do we want the director of marketing driving more people to the site or monitoring seller discussions?
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