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Alibris overview
Alibris is an online marketplace for sellers of new and used books, music, movies, and rare and collectible titles and textbooks.
Partners
When you sell items on Alibris, in addition to listing your items on its own website, Alibris automatically lists your items on a global network of Alibris selling partners including Better World Books, BookByte, Bookrenter, Books-a-Million, Campus Book Rentals, Chapters/Indigo, CollegeBookRenter, Ingram, TextbookX, Waterstone's Marketplace, and Valore.
To see a complete list of Alibris partner sites, see the Alibris website
Supported categories
The Alibris market supports the following categories:
- Books
- DVDs
- Music
- VHS Videos
- Video Games
Using Alibris and Monsoon Marketplace
- When you create your Alibris seller account, do not set up pricing preferences on the market. Turning on pricing preferences creates pricing conflicts with Monsoon Marketplace and unexpected pricing behavior. If pricing preferences are turned on, you can contact Alibris Seller Services to turn them off.
- When you set up account preferences on Alibris, select Standard-data upload and Product/package condition as your listing upload format.
- If you use Monsoon Marketplace to sell on Amazon US, do not opt-in to the Amazon.com Seller Program. When you opt-in, Alibris purges all of your Amazon listings and replaces them with a copy of your current Alibris inventory. For more information about the Alibris and the Amazon Seller Program, see the Alibris website.
- To sell Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) items on Alibris, the Alibris market requires that you email Alibris Seller Support to opt-out of the following brand-sensitive channels: Barnes & Noble, Textbooks.com, BookRenter, and Chegg. Opting out of a sales channel means that Alibris will not list your FBA items on the partner's site.
- Alibris shipping preferences are set directly on the market. Alibris determines shipping cost at the time an order ships, and then credits you an amount based on your location and the location the order ships to. For more information, see Understanding Alibris Shipping Rules.
- For product identifiers, Alibris strongly recommends that you upload an ISBN or UPC for Books and a UPC for DVDs, Music, and VHS Videos. For items in the Video Games category, Alibris requires a UPC. Alibris does not accept an ASIN as a product identifier.
- A listing cannot contain contact information, terms of sale, profane language, or any information not related to an item's condition or description. If Alibris places a listing on administrative hold due to prohibited content, you can edit the item's description in Monsoon Marketplace and then delist and relist the item. For more information about prohibited content, see the Alibris website.
- If you upload an item between US$0.01 and US$0.98, Alibris automatically changes the price to US$0.99, the minimum listing price on Alibris web sites.
- If you ship an order to the Alibris distribution center, Alibris collects, reports, and remits the appropriate sales or use tax. Additionally, Alibris collects and remits sales tax for all orders placed in California and Nevada.
- Monsoon Marketplace does not currently upload images to Alibris although you can add images to your listings directly on the market.
- Alibris allows sending email to buyers for customer service reasons only. You must set up an email template to do so, and you cannot include any URLs.
For detailed guidelines, see the Seller|Hub: Policies & Procedures topic.
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