Supposedly Amazon gave up on Sunday and admitted (on the Kindle forum) that they will indeed eventually have to capitulate with Macmillan's pricing plan because they want to be able to bring these books to the world even if they think they cost too much.  Way to look out for the little guy.  As of today all Macmillan titles are still unavailable on ( Read more... )

Although to be fair it seems this time Macmillan publishing is part of the problem as well.

I've been catching up on my F-List and found out that sometime Friday evening Amazon stopped selling any title published by Macmillan due to some sort of dispute over the cost of e-books.  Now Macmillan has a lot of imprints - like Tor - so nearly half of ( Read more... )

I'm still following the whole Amazon thing on the Interwebs.  So far I haven't seen anything that makes me change my mind - I still think the problem of de-ranked books is a big deal and that Amazon's response the the whole fuck-up is beyond lame ( Read more... )

Edward Champion finally heard back from someone at amazon.

Read the response from Patty Smith here: http://www.edrants.com/amazonfail-amazon-responds/

Still no public statement on what happened.  Nor a public apology for the screw-up.

And how does a "ham-fisted cataloging error" like this get out on a public site?  Where are the controls to keep ( Read more... )