Originally Posted by
Fitter2
[SIZE=2]Amazon use an independant resource, Neilsen Book Data, for any book not in their 'best seller' stock list, so it appears they have everything. They then, because of their buying power, beat the supplier down to low margins. If they can't, the book is effectively blacklisted on the site (the Amazon search engine 'cannot
I wrote a flying book recently, published by AFE - Amazon list it, and I understand that this is the arrangement by which they do so for mine. I gather from Jeremy Pratt (MD of AFE) that this annoys small publishers a lot - hence I'd agree with Fitter2 completely. Buy things like aviation books from the publisher or a bookshop actually stocking it where you can - it helps keep them in business, which we probably all want more than 50p off a book cover price.
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