Re: selling books globally: apparently as part of “Fulfillment by Amazon”, there’s an Amazon program nowadays where Amazon does all the international stuff for you, by purchasing inventory from you and then reselling it abroad. The details in Amazon Seller Central Europe are here (login required). I don’t know how well this works, or if a similar program is available in the US.
Anyway, here’s an excerpt:
With Amazon’s global program, sellers can increase revenue and expand their reach with minimal effort. Let us manage cross-border fulfillment, international returns and translations of product descriptions for you.
Through our program, we can purchase your products at your offer price on your European store, and sell them on other Amazon global stores. Global stores could include the UK, the EU, and other countries where you are not currently selling.
If we purchase your inventory, your selling experience is similar to a Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) domestic sale. The program doesn’t have an additional fee and won’t impact your sales to other domestic or international customers. Standard FBA fees for domestic sales will apply.
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How do I sign up?
All eligible sellers are automatically enrolled in the program. To confirm your enrollment status, go to Settings in Seller Central, and select Fulfillment by Amazon. Search for Allow Amazon to buy my products to sell globally and click EDIT. If you see global stores that are enabled, your seller account is enrolled. If you do not see this option, your account is not currently eligible for the program.
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Where will Amazon sell my products?
As part of the program, your products can be sold on any other Amazon global stores. To customize which global stores your products can be sold in, go to Fulfillment by Amazon settings and select Edit next to Allow Amazon to buy my products to sell globally. This will allow you to choose the global stores you want to sell into.
Thanks. I just checked on Amazon DE and UK, and the book is indeed available for sale there, presumably offered by Amazon buying your own inventory as per the above, and (at least in Germany) they just include shipping and their resale profit margin in the sticker price (rather than e.g. including a separate price for shipping).
Amazon DE: 38€ (~$40), ships to Germany, no idea whether it also ships elsewhere in Europe.
Amazon UK: £27.5 (~$33.5, shipping might not be included), ships to the UK, no idea whether it also ships elsewhere.
(While DE and UK seem cheaper than ordering directly from the US, I haven’t checked the same for the other stores.)
So it might be worth adjusting the answers to the first two questions of the FAQ to sth like: “We only directly sell on Amazon US. Plus Amazon might conceivably sell the books, with no input from us, in your country’s local Amazon store; here are links to the stores we’re aware of. If the books are not available in your country’s Amazon store, try briefly googling them, and if none of the Amazon stores (incl. Amazon US) ship to you, then they’re unfortunately not available”.
Re: selling books globally: apparently as part of “Fulfillment by Amazon”, there’s an Amazon program nowadays where Amazon does all the international stuff for you, by purchasing inventory from you and then reselling it abroad. The details in Amazon Seller Central Europe are here (login required). I don’t know how well this works, or if a similar program is available in the US.
Anyway, here’s an excerpt:
I just checked, it actually says they’re already enabled.
Thanks. I just checked on Amazon DE and UK, and the book is indeed available for sale there, presumably offered by Amazon buying your own inventory as per the above, and (at least in Germany) they just include shipping and their resale profit margin in the sticker price (rather than e.g. including a separate price for shipping).
Amazon DE: 38€ (~$40), ships to Germany, no idea whether it also ships elsewhere in Europe.
Amazon UK: £27.5 (~$33.5, shipping might not be included), ships to the UK, no idea whether it also ships elsewhere.
Amazon Turkey, Amazon Mexico
Amazon Australia, Amazon Singapore (both listed as item currently unavailable)
(While DE and UK seem cheaper than ordering directly from the US, I haven’t checked the same for the other stores.)
So it might be worth adjusting the answers to the first two questions of the FAQ to sth like: “We only directly sell on Amazon US. Plus Amazon might conceivably sell the books, with no input from us, in your country’s local Amazon store; here are links to the stores we’re aware of. If the books are not available in your country’s Amazon store, try briefly googling them, and if none of the Amazon stores (incl. Amazon US) ship to you, then they’re unfortunately not available”.
(I hadn’t checked before now because I’ve just already spent a ton of time doing book admin this year and was fairly exhausted from it. )