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Hey, wanna know what those crazy folks at Amazon did last night? They put back the buy buttons on Macmillan print editions.

But no Kindle editions.

Heh.

You know, Amazon, if you would have done this initially, this would be very, very, very different. That would have ( Read more... )

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Here it is, one week after Amazon yanked the buy buttons from Macmillan print and e-book titles. So what’s new?

First, Macmillan took out a full-page NYT ad for one of its new hardcover releases…and let the reading public know that the book is available everywhere except ( Read more... )

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Six days after Amazon removed all buy buttons from all editions of Macmillan titles, and more than three days after its Kindle team whined that Macmillan had a monopoly on Macmillan titles and therefore Amazon had to capitulate…Amazon **still** hasn’t put back the buy ( Read more... )

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You thought it was interesting when it was merely Amazon versus Macmillan? Well, hold on to your seats. According to this article, Rupert Murdoch is unhappy with the US$9.99 Kindle prices.

“We don’t like the Amazon model of selling everything at $US9.99,” Murdoch said ( Read more... )

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Poor little Amazon (take a moment to just appreciate the irony right there).

Yeah, poor mega-ginormous online retailer. No one loves you anymore. All because you proceeded to anger your supplier, your supplier’s suppliers, your supplier’s supplier’s customers, and, oh ( Read more... )

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And now, breaking news from Amazon. As reported by Publishers Lunch, earlier this evening, January 31, 2010, the Amazon Kindle team posted the following to a forum on their site:

Dear Customers:

Macmillan, one of the “big six” publishers, has clearly communicated to us ( Read more... )

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Publishers Lunch sent out a terrific update late yesterday on the Amazon/Macmillan situation, called “The Battle Over the Agency Model Begins, As Amazon Pulls Macmillan Buy Buttons.” I can’t find a version online, so I’m going to be quoting from it.

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So you guys may not have heard the latest publishing kerfuffle, which was reported here: Amazon Pulls Macmillan Books Over E-Book Price Disagreement

Cory Doctorow commented pretty extensively on what this means, here: Amazon and Macmillan go to war: readers and writers ( Read more... )

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Okay, so you’ve probably heard about what’s happening on Amazon, yeah? About how (some/many) GLBT themed books, as well as some “adult material,” have suddenly been de-ranked, yeah?

A RED HOT VALENTINE’S DAY has also been de-ranked.

Some people, like the Smart Bitches, ( Read more... )