Elizabeth Wayland Barber, writing for the New York Times:
But last month, Etsy announced new policies that would allow sellers to apply to peddle items they produced with manufacturing partners, as well as to hire staff and use outside companies to ship their goods — all provided that the sellers demonstrated the “authorship, responsibility and transparency” intrinsic to handmade items.
I’m curious how they’ll enforce this — it seems like a vague enough requirement as to be useless.
Still, one can’t deny Etsy’s success thus far.