Amazon increases eyebrows with the timetable of his great sale of books For 2025, which runs from April 23 to 28 – which means that it competes directly Bookstore Independent Day.
As a writer Maris Kreisman Explained in Lit HubThe independent bookstore day is an annual event organized by the American Booksellers Association (ABA), with events, special visitors and exclusive goods in 1,600 participating bookstores. And this year, it takes place on April 26 (today).
“I ask you: If you live near an indie bookstore (and I know that many of us don’t do it and I hope one day we all do), you have to go,” Kreizman said.
Indie bookstores seem to be in recovery in the United States, at least According to last year’s numbers by ABA. But of course, Amazon remains dominant – in 2020, A Home Committee was appreciated That the company controls more than 50% of the total online and offline book book market and is even more dominant in e -books.
So it’s not exactly a good look for the company to date its big sale to compete with a national, festive bookstore event.
In fact, bookshop.org – an Amazon competitor who works with Indie bookstores – by email with a note by Managing Director Andy Hunter who describes the sale of Amazon as “Calculated Movement from a company that has already put half the bookstores in the country outside the business, combined ”.
“People in Amazon responsible for the timetable of” book sale “must be ashamed, but they are shameless,” Hunter said.
Amazon, however, released a statement Describing the timing coating as “inadvertently”: “The dates for our sale were set this year to accommodate additional participating countries.”
Taking into account the company’s scale, it is certainly likely that the independent bookstore day has just been registered with the people planning the sale. Even so, ABA Allison Hill CEO told Vulture“At best it is non -sensitive and in the worst case it seems like a tactic to harm small businesses.”
