Amazon Loses Etailing Partners
July 7, 2008 by Anne Wayman
Filed under Jobs
Angela Hoy’s Amazon BookSurge Antitrust Lawsuit Clearinghouse points to an article at Investor’s Business Daily by Doug Tsuruoka called Amazon Deals Have Short Shelf Life.
The gist is many of the retailers who have partnered with the online bookseller are unhappy and are leaving Amazon to start their own etailing websites. The only publisher mentioned is Borders, and there’s no indication in the article that this trend has anything directly to do with the callous way Amazon is is forcing POD publishers to use Amazon-owned BookSurge. And there may not be a connection.
But it’s tempting to at least wonder if the greed and shortsightedness of Amazon’s view of POD publishing reflects an attitude causing problems for retailing partners.
We’ll just keep watching.
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Um … I believe it’s “callous”, not “callus”.
Perhaps this whole issue will open up new avenues of publishing and distribution for self-published authors and small publishers. Opportunities they never would have thought of because they were in their comfort zone with Amazon. As much as we often dislike that old phrase, “When one door closes another opens,” when things change in our lives, it’s so often true.
As you say, Anne, we’ll wait and see.
callous
yep and yep
and thanks to those of you who corrected my spelling… I think I’ve got it now.