Here’s a real-life reminder that Amazon doesn’t kid around when it says “no watermarks or copyrights in images”. This week I spoke to an Amazon low-ASP seller that had embedded a copyright mark on photos (a number of sellers in this category are doing so — here’s a good example) and received a 48 hours [...]

Several merchants report that Amazon has begun offering free conversions of eCommerce sites to its Amazon Webstore product for qualified online retailers. The email (below) states $400,000 in annual sales as criteria but nothing specific about traffic goals.

E-consultancy’s Graham Charlton has written a post on mostly usability improvements he would like to see on Amazon. There are a lot of classics on this list (no ability to sign out, misspellings in searches are not auto-corrected) but the biggest challenge is the ever-growing product detail page which is starting to look a lot [...]

Rumors have sprung up that Amazon will begin selling wine in the US. Via Computerworld comes a new job posting on Amazon’s site for a “senior wine buyer”:
“[...] the senior buyer must have broad experience in the wine industry and will be responsible for the “acquisition of massive new product selection” and “will work to [...]

I attended over the last three days the IMA (Internet Merchants Association) conference in Las Vegas, a great opportunity to speak with small to mid-sized merchants about online retailing challenges (in particular around eBay and Amazon) and better understand where they are going (comparison shopping, international, social networking, etc.). Amazon’s Matt Williams presented at this [...]

Here’s a great opportunity to rub shoulders with Amazon’s management team: SVP Sebastian Gunningham, head of Amazon 3P (third-party) seller program, will be attending ChannelAdvisor Catalyst US in Pinehurst, North Carolina, April 1st through the 3rd. He is going to bring some team members with him to talk about the tremendous opportunity on Amazon for [...]

Amazon has launched new training videos on shipping at Amazon that provide good information on the various options and how to best take advantage of them. We at ChannelAdvisor get a lot of questions from our customers on this piece so I highly recommend reviewing them (if nothing else then a simple refresher).