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Publisher says “everyone’s afraid of Amazon…”
There is a fascinating article about Amazon.com in the New York Times today. The headline reads: “Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal”. This is amazing stuff. The book publishing business is getting brutally Darwinian. Only the fittest will survive.
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By Irishguy
October 24, 2011 7:10 AM | Link to this
“The Rogue” is still selling?? Really??
By Mark from St Paul
October 20, 2011 7:46 PM | Link to this
Amazon hasn’t won yet. Joe McGinnis’s “The Rogue” sells at Amazon for $14.13 for the hardback, and $12.99 for the Kindle edition. Those are the rock bottom prices set by the publisher which Amazon has to honor. Who knew that you could publish a hardback book for only $1.14 more than it costs to make a digital version? ——- I’m being facetious, of course. The publisher has to charge more to pay for all those brand new digital printing presses….
By Blowfly
October 19, 2011 2:51 PM | Link to this
Same could be said of he music and newspaper business. I love the publishers’ attitude - we ignored these writers for good reason and how dare Amazon give the public what they want. The nerve.