Amazon implemented restrictions on the best-selling video games and consoles to provide the best shopping experience possible for these products (high rate of fraud?). Games include the great Rock Band, Guitar Hero and Meta Gear Solid 4.
There are also hints that Amazon may soon close off again the Toys category in preparation for the holiday [...]

Amazon announced on Monday the launch of its latest mini site, Office Supplies, at www.amazon.com/officesupplies, “a single shopping destination that offers competitive prices on hundreds of thousands of products for the classroom, home office, small office, corporate office and everything in-between.”

I skipped a weekly update due to eBay Live! last week in Chicago, but there have been a few interesting tidbits around Amazon that are worth noting.

Amazon is rumored to take its Amazon Payment System where all checkout solutions have gone before: according to Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Derek Brown, Amazon is preparing to launch a [...]

Getting images right on Amazon is one of the most important requirements for selling successfully on this channel. A sometimes painful lesson to learn for merchants expanding from eBay to Amazon (note that I didn’t say “migrate” since they each site has its own unique strengths and benefits) where you get away with your products [...]

Here’s what happened this past week that’s interesting and news worthy around Amazon:

Consider selling on Amazon your safest growth strategy. Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay published a report this past week that has both Google and Amazon dominating the internet and e-commerce for the foreseeable future.
There were few news sites and blogs that did [...]