Finally Amazon have responded today to the rumpus over their move to force POD publishers to use Amazon’s in-house pod printers, Booksurge. I will post in more detail about this in response to the Amazon statement over the coming days. Here is the statement in full as released today by Amazon Corporate. March 31, 2008 […]
Most writer and publisher forums are widely discussing the current move by Amazon to make POD publishers use their print-wing Booksurge. Just to clarify, the listing on Amazon for an author’s book will remain, but the ‘buy’ link button to purchase direct from Amazon has been disabled for all POD printed books. The option to […]
Authors seem now to be reporting that Borders.com may also have followed Amazon’s lead regarding this issue. With regard to Amazon Pod titles, the ‘buy’ button directs buyers to third-party sellers outside of Amazon. The Independent Publishing Magazine | TIPM Media
Following on from the previous post on Amazon’s moves against POD publishers, here is some more indept information and analysis on the current situation, particularly from Angela Hoy of Writersweekly. http://www.writersweekly.com/the_latest_from_angelahoycom/004597_03272008.html The Independent Publishing Magazine | TIPM Media
This all seems to happened over the past 24 hours and several POD sites and forums are just starting to voice their reactions. It seems that Amazon have taken the bold business step of informing POD publishers as well as traditional publishers who use print-on-demand digital print technology that they will have to use Amazon’s […]
Currently Lynn Osterkamp is conducting a survey for authors who have used pod subsidy publishers and would like their feed back. You can take part in this survey at the following link; http://www.thepopulistpublisher.com/ Here are my generally posted comments about Lynn’s survey. I’m a little bemused as well about some of the negative criticism. I […]
