“Amazon launches marketplace” is the news of the moment among teachers. The multinational retailer has just launched Ignite, which enables educators to market teaching resources to each other and also to students' parents.
For now, Ignite is available to US sellers and buyers only. There is no forecast of launch of this marketplace in Brazil. However, if you are thinking about creating a marketplace, then you can certainly learn some lessons from this venture.
Anyway, keep reading and stay on top of this news from Amazon!
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AMAZON LAUNCHES MARKETPLACE OF DIGITAL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
As stated earlier, Ignite is an educational resource marketplace. It is a tool that has two online interfaces, they are:
1 – The Ignite website where Amazon will select the teachers who will be able to sell resources;
2 – The Digital Educational Resources page where the resources are displayed to buyers.
In this way, selected educators will be able to market resources such as:
- Lesson plans;
- Worksheets;
- Educational games;
- Projects;
- Spreadsheets;
- Interactive notebooks;
- posters;
- Printable teaching tools;
- task cards;
- Others.
Such resources can be sold in files formatted as .doc, .docx, .pdf, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx and .zip. Materials are available on the website in categories such as “School Year”, “Subject”, “Types of Resources”, etc.
In this way, buyers can select the features they prefer more easily. And when paying, they can use Amazon's payment tools as usual. Teachers, on the other hand, receive payment for their sales in deposit once a month.
Amazon, in turn, is responsible for collecting and remitting sales tax. Finally, it is worth mentioning that teachers can join the marketplace for free. However, they must pass 30% of their sales to Amazon.
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HOW DO I JOIN IGNITE?
Interested educators should access the aforementioned Ignite website and click on the “request invitation” button.
Next, a form must be filled out, which requires that:
- The teacher is physically present in the US;
- The teacher's name, brand or company;
- An e-mail;
- The URL (optional) of the website itself;
- The amount of resources to be sold;
- The identification of the series to which the resources are intended;
- The study area.
Once you submit the completed form, Amazon will review the application and contact the teacher when convenient. According to the company, this entire procedure serves to protect the producers' copyrights.
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