This is pissing me off. I buy from Amazon a LOT. I should have shares in that company, really. But they are acting like a bully, and have done in the past, as well. The New York Times article is here.
Publisher's Lunch stated in bold font that Amazon has deleted the "Buy" buttons from all of titan publishing company Macmillan's ebooks, in a dispute over ebook pricing. Macmillan is an umbrella publisher for several publishing imprints, including Tor. This is a lot of ebooks they are banishing. These ebooks have even vanished from online Amazon wish lists of many customers.
Amazon wants the ebooks to remain $9.99, which is not unreasonable. Macmillan wants the pricing at $15.00, which I think is outrageous, but there has to be a better way of coming to an agreement than completely pulling Macmillan's ebooks from their cyber shelf. Amazon is effectively shooting itself in the foot, because these are profits they are not making in an effort to strong-arm Macmillan into bowing under their power tactics.
The authors are the ones who are really losing in this dispute. It's just silly.
But hey, folks, there's always Barnes and Noble and Borders, and tons of other places to order from, including Indie books stores and the publisher's own sites.
I'm not a big fan of bullying, and this is bullying at it's best.
So until you learn to play nice, Amazon, I for one, am not playing with you any more.
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