Today my book selling community reported that many who are selling on the used book site Allibris has been getting huge international orders.

    the partnership announcement: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/99104-shein-expands-into-bookselling-with-alibris-partnership.html

    the community confusion (booksellers):

    https://www.reddit.com/r/BookCollecting/comments/1q6xoo1/comment/nycwiy6/?context=1

    This is an extraordinarily weird, non-aligned and very low margin market for SHEIN to get involved in. Do any of you have any insight into what the rationale might be? I can’t imagine it’s NOT tariff related but who knows—maybe in Chiba there’s a huge market for english used books???

    Why would SHEIN be getting into selling used books from small sellers via Allibris? Tariff related?
    byu/cartoonybear inAskEconomics



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