How Amazon treats Publishers
How Amazon treats publishers:
Amazon Is NOT the Vladimir Putin of the Publishing World - The Daily Beast
- Amazon will use every means possible in negotiating. This includes how publisher books are displayed in search results, messaging availability, and in some cases not even offer them.
- Publishers by insisting on DRM (Digital Rights Management), have made it very hard to sell e-books, except through Amazon
- Amazon makes a huge amount of money per e-Book
- By owning the hardware (Kindle) and with a proprietary format, this gives Amazon a huge amount of power.
- By selling the Kindle below cost, this has helped Amazon a huge amount.
- Amazon is going around the publishing industry, and having authors sell directly on Amazon.
- Traditionally, the publishing industry has treated all authors, except the biggest, badly.
- The publishing industry is incredibly inefficient.
- Amazon has around an 80% marketshare in e-Books in the US.
References:
Amazon: malignant monopoly, or just plain evil? - Charlie Stross
Excellent write up of the issues.
Amazon Is NOT the Vladimir Putin of the Publishing World - The Daily Beast
The author basically says that Amazon provides lower prices, so it's OK what they do to publishers.
Bad publicity for Amazon
Labels: amazon, book stores
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