Publishing Wars
April 1, 2008
Amazon’s recent decision to offer their own print on demand titles (from their acquired BookSurge Company) has caused quite a stir in the entire industry. In the past I’ve used Lightning Source for print on demand and they’ve done remarkable work. I’m sure their business will greatly suffer if the majority of publishers sign up for Amazon’s print on demand services.
Author James Grahame is finding this new arrangement troublesome as he too enjoyed the flexibility offered by his use of LightningSource:
I’m going to choose the “or else” option. I don’t much like being bullied, especially after years of directing the majority of my book’s sales to Amazon, who earned as much as 45% of the cover price for each book sold in the USA and UK. The “buy” button still appears on my book’s Amazon page, but I fear that will change once Amazon runs out of inventory.
Entry Filed under: Amazon, Book Publishing, Digital Communities, printing. Tags: Amazon, POD, Print, print on demand.
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The Broken Forum | April 1, 2008 at 6:44 pm
I think it’s digusting what they’re doing. They’re not backing down either. It seems so far that a few companies are agreeing to their terms (Lulu, iUniverse). Ingram doesn’t seem the least worried though…at least not yet.