ABA, Authors Guild, Association of Authors’ Representatives, and Authors United team up to demand Amazon antitrust inquiry
A month after the European Union announced an antitrust investigation into Amazon’s ebook contracts, four powerful groups representing authors and bookstores are uniting to demand that the U.S. government launch a… Read more »
What will be sold at Amazon’s New York non-store?
Last week, we brought news of a major leap into the future from those brave, bold innovators at Amazon: the creation of New York’s first-ever pop-up shop/storage facility/product takeout space/kitchenware… Read more »
Janet Fitch goes after “Mr. Bezos”
Forget the Neal Pollacks, the Hugh Howeys. Give me your Fitches, your Prestons, your huddled authors yearning to write free. Janet Fitch, author of the blockbusters White Oleander and Paint it Black, wants Jeff Bezos to know he… Read more »
Today in mergers and standoffs: Lagardère releases sales info (Updated)
You remember that Hachette recently acquired Perseus and changed distribution for 400 indie publishers. The sale wasn’t completed yesterday, as they’d initially announced, but the deal is expected to close at the end of August.… Read more »
Amazon wants Hachette to stop “using its authors as human shields”
Once upon a time, you could expect one sentence in nearly every article published about Amazon: “An Amazon spokesman declined to comment.” As of this writing, a Google search for… Read more »
Authors United push back against Amazon, develop “long-term strategy”
A group of authors who recently signed a letter calling on “Amazon to resolve its dispute with Hachette without hurting authors and without blocking or otherwise delaying the sale of… Read more »