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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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