Regarding Amazon and POD...
Mar. 30th, 2008 09:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jhetley(Print On Demand)
A number of on-line folks have been getting wound up over Amazon's recent move on POD book listings. Boils down to "Use our POD service or lose your 'Buy Here' button."
http://www.writersweekly.com/the_latest_from_angelahoycom/004597_03272008.html
I'm afraid I can't get as agitated about it as others seem to think I should. Amazon is a business. That's their business site. Sending business elsewhere cuts money they can earn, even if they get a referral fee. A billion here, a billion there, soon you're talking about real money. (Probably misquoting the late senator.)
Nobody seems to claim that Penguin has to list Harper Collins books on their website.
This doesn't stop people from taking their own book dollars elsewhere....
(I should note, of course, that this is not my ox that is getting gored. My attitude may change if I decide at some future point to release either GHOST POINT or SIGNATURES via POD publishing....)
A number of on-line folks have been getting wound up over Amazon's recent move on POD book listings. Boils down to "Use our POD service or lose your 'Buy Here' button."
http://www.writersweekly.com/the_latest_from_angelahoycom/004597_03272008.html
I'm afraid I can't get as agitated about it as others seem to think I should. Amazon is a business. That's their business site. Sending business elsewhere cuts money they can earn, even if they get a referral fee. A billion here, a billion there, soon you're talking about real money. (Probably misquoting the late senator.)
Nobody seems to claim that Penguin has to list Harper Collins books on their website.
This doesn't stop people from taking their own book dollars elsewhere....
(I should note, of course, that this is not my ox that is getting gored. My attitude may change if I decide at some future point to release either GHOST POINT or SIGNATURES via POD publishing....)
