Amazon has temporarily paused its B2B ordering for products that are not “household staples, medical supplies, or other high demand products” from vendors and sellers in the US and Europe. What that means for record labels and distributors: Amazon won’t be making any further trade orders of CD, vinyl and merch products into its warehouses until this “temporary pause” ends – which won’t arrive until at least April 5.
Source: Coronavirus clobbers music retail, as Amazon halts trade orders of CD and vinyl