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Bye, Bye Buy Buttons!
Amazonfail continues. Business Week (among other places) reports that Amazon is in negotiations with several publishers over Kindle pricing. They've set an April 3 deadline, after which point buy buttons will presumably go away for print books.
This hits me right in the pocketbook. Two of the Deadliest will be out in paperback on April 20. (/shameless...
3/18/2010 4:00:11 PM
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John Scalzi is Full of Win Tonight
He's explaining the whole Amazon issue from another angle.
And Reuters is reporting that Amazon stock is way off and B&N is up.
Tags: Publishing Amazonfail 2/3/2010 10:07:14 PM
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First Macmillan, Now HarperCollins?
(Disclosure, I'm in an anthology called Two of the Deadliest that is published by HarperCollins.)
Apparently HarperCollins is now ready to sit down and renegotiate with Amazon for a deal sort of like Macmillan wants.
Yeah, I'm in fav...
2/2/2010 7:01:31 PM
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Support an Screwed Over Author - Buy A Book
No, that screwed over author isn't me.
I mentioned last night that I planned to buy a copy of Leviathan, and today I did. Scott Westerfeld's book is published by Simon & Schuster, which is an imprint of Macmillan. Here's the link at Borders, where I happened to make the purchase. Why Borders?
A few reasons. One, I wanted to buy it - today - as a show of support for a Macmillan author. Two, it's...
2/1/2010 4:31:36 PM
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More Amazon, More Fail
I'm going to attempt to address a few concerns I've seen over at the Amazon Kindle forum, where the retailer released a rather odd statement of "capitulation" to Macmillan.
Many Kindle readers are up in arms because they think they were promised $9.99 e-books. No one promised a set price point. In fact, Amazon is los...
2/1/2010 10:02:31 AM
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Continuing to Update the Amazon/BookSurge Story
You'll find updates here.
And now the story has been slashdotted.
Now that I've had some time to digest this news, I have mixed feelings. Most folks who buy books from small publishers and self-publishers will go where the publisher or author tells them to go. On the other hand, Amazon is the 500-pound gorilla in the online bookselling world. Borders is powered ...
3/30/2008 11:17:41 AM
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Amazon Sticks it to Some POD Publishers
(Note: I'll update this story as I get more information. Updates will be at the bottom, or click the link in the previous sentence.)
Amazon.com seems to be giving the brush-off to Print On Demand publishers that do not use their BookSurge service. Writers Weekly (their publisher also also owns POD press BookLocker.com) has this to say on the topic.
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3/28/2008 9:49:33 AM
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