Mar 30 2008

Amazon Says Ef U to POD Publishers

Published by auria cortes at 11:06 am under Industry News

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Here’s the lowdown: According to WritersWeekly, Amazon’s has a new policy for writers who print their books through a POD…unless they use BookSurge, an Amazon owned POD company, their books will not be sold through Amazon. The buy button will be turned off on Amazon.com

The article goes on to say the following: “Mr. Clifford [of Amazon/Booksurge] said authors of those books [POD] could participate in the Amazon.com Advantage Program, meaning they would have to pay Amazon $29.95 per year PLUS 55% of the list price of their book, as well as buy and then send those books to Amazon directly for them to warehouse and ship to customers. In addition, their “eventual desire is to have no books from other POD publishers available on Amazon.com.”This decision will directly affect POD writers, including those who printed their books with iUniverse and Lulu.com.  

So if POD is an option you are considering, click here to learn more about how Amazon’s decision will affect your book sales. 

3 Responses to “Amazon Says Ef U to POD Publishers”

  1. # Aaron Croccoon 31 Mar 2008 at 12:51 pm

    This is retarded. Might as well make it a Kindle book and Amazon would probably **LOVE** to host it.

  2. # auria corteson 31 Mar 2008 at 3:21 pm

    That is true, Aaron. The Amazon representative in the article says that plainly.

    From a business and monolopy standpoint, I am interested to see if Amazon is taken to task whether a court will agree with their business decision.

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