Merch by Amazon

Great until they decide to offer their own line of merch and yours isn't allowed in the store any more...

And in other news, Teespring is launching an ecommerce store.<p>Seriously though, the thing that Teespring really nailed for me is the experience. It&#x27;s so unbelievably smooth, hats off to that team. Every inch of the product is very well thought out.<p>I just doubt that Amazon can do something as well when it&#x27;s one of the million things they have on their plate.

So...they&#x27;re going after Teespring?

Strange that the artwork upload doesn&#x27;t seem to support vector graphics. They want a rasterized JPEG?

This name will raise unfortunate associations for fans of the Penny Arcade comic: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.penny-arcade.com&#x2F;comic&#x2F;2005&#x2F;01&#x2F;05" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.penny-arcade.com&#x2F;comic&#x2F;2005&#x2F;01&#x2F;05</a>

Interesting; in addition to competing directly with sites like Zazzle and Spreadshirt (with the Amazon name attached), they&#x27;ve targeted their marketing specifically at mobile app vendors making shirts to go with their games.

I love these weird unexpected Amazon projects. They&#x27;re like the opposite of Google&#x27;s moonshots.<p>&quot;What bizarre project with small potential can we pour a bunch of time and money into today?&quot;

I wonder why Amazon didn&#x27;t get into this business 10 years ago...

No details on whether you can sell only to US customers or worldwide. SDK Seems small enough for people to integrate into Games and make some easy money if supported worldwide.

Not a single thing about the type of t-shirt? This basically guarantees it is the crappiest possible t-shirt with printing, not something you&#x27;ll actually want to wear, right? i.e. something like cafepress.

T-shirts only? You&#x27;d think Amazon would be able to offer more merch variety right off the bat. Mouse pads, coffee mugs, all the stuff, like Cafepress does. How many T-shirts does a person need anyway?

Interesting business model...Promoters design shirts then advertise to their customers to buy them? Amazon gets the $$ and the promoters get brand awareness and a few cents of royalty...