Amazon has opened a flagship store on Chinese competitor Alibaba Group Holding’s consumer-to-consumer site, Tmall.com. Amazon’s store on the site launched this week and so far offers a limited range of products including imported food, women’s shoes, toys and kitchen equipment, the Wall Street Journal reported. http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/03/06/amazon-opens-store-inside-alibaba... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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“Serious content restrictions” at Amazon’s fan fiction platform Kindle Worlds... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Paperback editions of books by Amazon Publishing UK author Mel Sherratt are being stocked locally... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-08-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Austrian, Swiss and German authors have sent an open letter of protest to Amazon, protesting the use of 'authors and their books as a bargaining chip to exact deeper discounts.' Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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More than 1,000 writers from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland have signed a letter to Amazon saying that the company has made Bonnier-published books less available and manipulated Amazon's recommended reading lists. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Can a one-size-fits-all, low-price, consumer-dominated sales model support a diverse, innovative, challenging literary output?It is either an existential threat to intellectual freedom or a rustbelt media industry meeting its comeuppance at the hands of disruptive technology. The battle between... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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If Amazon believes in readers and Hachette believes in authors as much as they say, it's imperative they end their fight as soon as possible, argues Tanja Tuma. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Some Washington Post book reviews currently have a 'buy it now' link to Amazon embedded in the text, but a Washington Post spokesperson says the buttons are a mistake and that they're meant to go on the side of the page. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Over the weekend, the 'New York Times' reported on a letter of protest, from authors in Germany, about a terms dispute between Amazon and the local publisher, Bonnier. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Whispersync for Voice, Amazon’s feature which allows for synchronised reading and listening... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-08-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Why are some of the world's most widely read authors now at daggers drawn with Amazon? The answer lies in Jeff Bezos's chief lieutenant, now the most powerful man in publishingEarlier this year, Amazon threw a party at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to celebrate the launch of Alpha... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'This is about as close as one can get to the Ministry of Truth and its doublespeak: turning the facts inside out to get a piece of propaganda across,' Bill Hamilton, executor of the Orwell estate, said. Amazon recently wrote a letter criticizing publisher Hachette, with which it is engaged in a... Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'This is about as close as one can get to the Ministry of Truth and its doublespeak: turning the facts inside out to get a piece of propaganda across,' Bill Hamilton, executor of the Orwell estate, said. Amazon recently wrote a letter criticizing publisher Hachette, with which it is engaged in a... Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The New York City bookseller plans to add a new store on the Upper West Side at the end of November, just in time for the holidays. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Internet retailer accused of using tactics from Orwell's 1984 in war of words with the publisher HachetteRepresentatives of George Orwell have described Amazon's selective quoting of the Nineteen Eighty-Four author as "dystopian and shameless" and "as close as one can get to the Ministry of... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The publishers include ISI Books, the imprint of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute; Abbey Press, a Catholic Publisher, and Liberty Island Media, publisher of conservative fiction. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon has released a new device for local businesses to take credit and debit card transactions... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Lee Child has come out swinging in the manner of Jack Reacher on The Passive Voice website... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In Bloomberg View Leonid Bershidsky suggests the 'war' between Amazon and publishers is ultimately pointless, since the future of reading lies elsewhere. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon is using “authors as collateral damage and using customers as pawns”, author... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In a statement about its dispute with publisher Hachette, Amazon cited '1984' author George Orwell – while failing to understand the author's words, critics charged. Meanwhile, Amazon appears to be entering into a dispute with Disney. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-08-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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