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Friday, March 28, 2008

Amazon, Self-Publishing, and the Rest of Us


From Publisher's Weekly ...

BookSurge, Amazon’s print-on-demand subsidiary, is making an offer that most publishers would like to refuse, but don’t feel they can. According to talks with several pod houses, BookSurge has told them that unless their titles are printed by BookSurge, the buy buttons on Amazon for their titles will be disabled. A detailed explanation of her how the new program was explained to her is provided by BookLocker.com co-owner Angela Hoy on her writersweekly.com blog.



Angela Hoy at Writer's Weekly on the subject, plus more links

All about Amazon from the New York Times

Written and Posted by Unknown at 12:42 PM  

Labels: publishing news

1 comment:

Ruth L.~ said...

Another view on this topic can be found at the Booksquare blog: "Amazon Changes POD Tactics, Removes Velvet Gloves"

The link to the Booksquare is found as an RSS feed in the right margin of this blog

March 29, 2008 at 9:04 AM

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