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Everybody: A Book about Freedom

Olivia Laing

4.4 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880

W. E. Burghardt Du Bois and David Levering Lewis

4.8 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Don't Label Me: How to Do Diversity Without Inflaming the Culture Wars

Irshad Manji

4.3 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World

Charles G. Koch and Brian Hooks

4.5 on Amazon

1 HN comments

The Art of Communicating

Thich Nhat Hanh

4.8 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

Mark R. Levin

4.8 on Amazon

1 HN comments

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

David Talbot, Peter Altschuler, et al.

4.6 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

Kathleen Belew

4.6 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times

Jonathan Sacks

4.8 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Columbine

Dave Cullen, Don Leslie, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History

Kurt Andersen

4.7 on Amazon

1 HN comments

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

Les Payne, Tamara Payne, et al.

4.8 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America

Alec MacGillis

4.5 on Amazon

1 HN comments

The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom (Freedom in America) (Volume 2)

W. Cleon Skousen , Paul B. Skousen , et al.

4.8 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Little Black Sambo: Uncensored Original 1922 Full Color Reproduction

Helen Bannerman and Florence White Williams

4.6 on Amazon

1 HN comments

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joemionApr 20, 2016

Amazon would do (and probably still does) this in another way, too. When I was selling on Amazon for a bookstore, our strategy was try to find books that Amazon didn't have on the site, then sell them, and if any sold well we'd send massive quantities to Fulfillment By Amazon so we'd sell a lot and not have to ship each copy individually. The first time this happened, we sold something really well for 5 or 6 months, and then it stopped selling completely. Turns out Amazon started carrying it and was selling it far below list price. Then it happened again with another book after a few months of good sales. And then again. After the third or fourth time Amazon suddenly undercut us like that, we gave up on the practice, since between the already low FBA margins and the cost of returning all the unsold products to us (and the publisher) since we couldn't move them anymore, we weren't making enough for it to be worth the effort.
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