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Barnes & Noble on sale
My complaints about Barnes & Noble in the past have not really been about the retail store experience so much as its overweening power in the industry.
Amazon drops prices and Galleycat snarks
Amazon is supposedly dropping the price on the Kindle to $139. The folks over at Galley Cat are not impressed. Even worse for Amazon, even less is Seth Godin.
Amazon Partners Up with Possibly the Most Hated Man on the Literary Scene
The latest strategy by Amazon to buy exclusive digital rights from Andrew Wylie, possibly the most hated individual on the literary scene, shows how far we are from achieving any supposed internet utopias. Rather, the strategy shows what the digital publishing scene is about: rights and the money associated with those rights.
Who Moved My Buy Button?
Noticed an ad for this watchdog service (in beta right now) called Who Moved My Buy Button? They track books and let you know if Amazon happens to remove the buy-button. Yet another player in the book-pricing drama. The site also offers “A Field Guide to Amazon’s Book Pages.”
Winning the battle but losing the war?
As many who care about the behind the scenes of publishing already know, recently Macmillan and Amazon duked it out over who should control pricing for electronic books. When Macmillan asked Amazon to sign an agency plan that would let the large publisher control the prices on its ebooks, Amazon responded by refusing to sell [...]
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