Interviews and Articles on Alibris

It's always good to research the people you're doing business with. That's one thing the internet gives the independent bookseller that the big corporate dogs don't get, anonymity. To them we're just little insects they make pennies off of but we can see them for the towering, teetering giants that they are.

How about a little Online Independent Booksellers Union to drive down the percentages the big corporate bookstores steal from us just for being the middleman. Since when does the middleman get to call all the shots? If all the independent stores banded together and withdrew their inventories from the web in a concerted effort on the same day, Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Borders, all the big guys would lose millions of dollars. Just think of it!

When they force my account closed I'm going to use this post as evidence in court.

http://journal.bookfinder.com/archives/category/alibrisinterloc/

Interview with Michael Schaffer, CTO, Alibris
10/27/2006 04:41 mins

INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD WEATHERFORD, FOUNDER, AND MARTY MANLEY, PRESIDENT AND CEO, OF ALIBRIS

A Conversation with Dick Weatherford of Alibris

Industry Interview
Brian Elliott, Chief Operating Officer, Alibris, Inc.

An Interview with Alibris' A.J. Kohn

This is from back in 1999 from http://scout.wisc.edu/Projects/PastProjects/net-news/99-11/99-11-23/0006.html

USED-BOOKSELLER ALIBRIS TO PLEAD GUILTY TO INTERCEPTING AMAZON.COM'S E-MAIL
Issue: E-commerce
Alibris (www.alibris.com), a rare-book dealer based in Emeryville,
California, said it will plead guilty to intercepting e-mail messages
from Amazon.com, the Seattle-based industry leader. According to court
documents filed by federal prosecutors in U.S. District Court in Boston
yesterday, Alibris captured and stored more than 4,000 e-mail messages
in an attempt to collect intelligence on the market. The interceptions
were possible because Alibris provided e-mail service for the book dealers.
Marty Manley, Alibris' chief operating officer, expects to pay a $250,000
fine to end the case. Manley admits his firm violated the Electronic
Communications Privacy Act, but denied that the information was taken for
a devious purpose or was ever misused. Amazon says they will still use
Alibris, as they need its services.
[SOURCE: Wall Street Journal, AUTHOR: Glenn R. Simpson]
(http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB943305134720688183.htm)