Amazon Restores Macmillan Sales and Manages to Look Silly - [edit]

Monday, February 01 2010 -

So Amazon.com has finally come out with a statement that they will restore Macmillan books using the pricing model that Macmillan is insisting on. They did so in this terse letter. Go read the open letter by CEO John Sargent for comparison. Notice the difference?

Check out Scalzi’s as always humorous take on the mess here.

As of this morning, you still can’t purchase the Macmillan books I checked out. Amazon is really coming down hard on the authors here. They might be hurting the publisher, but it is the authors that take the brunt. Hey Amazon, you might recall you started as an online bookseller. If you piss off all your content creators then B & N will be happy to take all your customers.

 

I already have this one on my Kindle, unless of course you’ve decided to revoke my “usage” of it as well.

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