Making Readers Pay More Money For Ebooks Really Isn’t A Good Idea…
Monday, February 1, 2010Posted in: Amazon's God Complex, AmazonFail, MacMillan Publishers suck
I guess the majority of you have already heard about the Macmillan v Amazon hatefest, huh?
Well, for those who haven’t, this is the short version:
1. Macmillan Publishing want to solely dictate and fix ebook prices up to $15, and they don’t want retailers involved other than to sell them.
2. Amazon weren’t happy with that so told them to fuck off, by removing the ‘Buy It Now’ buttons from all Macmillan titles.
3. Some authors became angry and blamed Amazon.
4. Some bird over at DA called Rebecca, took it quite personally because she hates, HATES, I tell you, e-books, and wont be shopping at Amazon again because they are depriving her of print books, just to win an argument about ebooks, which she HATES by the way.
5. Amazon gives in, because they want to be able to offer their customers Macmillan titles, what with them being one of the six big publishing houses out there.
That’s about it, right? (more…)