Comments on: Update: Amazon Yanks 5,000 Kindle Titles In Fight Over Terms

By: Big-six publishers refuse to sign new contracts with Amazon — paidContent

Big-six publishers refuse to sign new contracts with Amazon — paidContent — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:31:56 +0000

[...] February, distributor Independent Publishers Group refused to capitulate to Amazon’s demand for better terms. As a result, Amazon yanked the Kindle [...]

By: maverick

maverick — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 03:18:31 +0000

Amazon is trying to destroy publishers and agents. Once they are the only source for ebooks they will screw authors as well. This isn’t about looking after their customers, it’s about global control.

By: Chromeronin

Chromeronin — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 06:39:23 +0000

But buying it with DRM tells them it’s ok, and you will still buy this crippled product.

By: Andrew Phule

Andrew Phule — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 06:28:43 +0000

Or, you know, remove the DRM yourself.

By: Joe_Btfsplk

Joe_Btfsplk — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:18:51 +0000

Yes, absolutely! How wise! Certainly if a publisher doesn’t cave to pricing that’s too low for them to remain a publisher then their authors should go direct to Amazon! I’m sure that Amazon’s behavior toward them would be far more fair! I mean, each individual author would have so much more pull on their own than would a publisher representing tens or hundreds or thousands of authors and their books. I mean, clearly! You bet! What, you think Amazon, once the authors are outside publisher protection, would go after them too with lower and lower and lower and lower terms, knowing each author on his or her own can be picked off easily? Of course Amazon wouldn’t do that! Show me one time that Amazon has ever tried to gut the prices it pays! No sir!

By: Pickin Grinnin

Pickin Grinnin — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:00:15 +0000

Absolutely. Publishers are in deep denial about this.

By: cookieknits

cookieknits — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:52:43 +0000

Well, I guess that makes me glad I have that Nook I accidentally bought and never took back. Better find it and charge it up.

By: Common Sense

Common Sense — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:12:26 +0000

If publishers would make their books DRM-free, you could read them on any device or convert them to read on any device. Without that, Kindle owners can only read books purchased through Amazon or DRM-free books available from sites like Smashwords. So that’s the basic problem.

It’s also the problem with the IPG direction to send people elsewhere. This is directed at Kindle owners and they can’t go elsewhere, unless the publishers is offering DRM-free copies now?

In reality, I think most people will just find a different book to purchase if one of theirs isn’t available.

By: MrsShuck

MrsShuck — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:35:28 +0000

I love my rooted Nook.

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:25:37 +0000

I simply cannot bring myself to pay the same price (in most cases with paperbacks) for a digital book as for a paper copy.