Online bookseller Amazon.com Inc., located in Seattle, will let any merchant sell goods to the12 million customers who shop on its Internet site, according to wire service reports.
For $9.99 a month, merchants can list up to 3,000 items on “zShops,” the area on Amazon’s site devoted to the sellers. Amazon.com will be paid a percentage of each sale. Merchants also can pay the company a fee for processing customers’ credit-card transactions. Data stored by Amazon.com won’t be released to zShops merchants.
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