None of these things are specifically directed at Amazon except insofar as they are
the biggest ebook vendor.
Not exact matches
Vendor overrides are one of the
biggest time sinks in
ebook development.
One of the
biggest issue publishers face with
ebook production is the somewhat adversarial attitude ereader and app
vendors have taken towards publisher stylesheets.
The obsession
ebook vendors have with silos and their antipathy towards easy interop is crippling their only competitive advantage over Amazon, the one
big thing they can use to increase the benefit a reader gets from their ecosystem.
Unlike the Western world where they have data provided by
big vendors, the Eastern countries embrace digital publishing as a whole when they discuss the matter regarding
eBook.
But how do you discount your
ebook on a
big vendor like Amazon?
«
Ebook Vendors Anticipate
Big Five Licensing Terms Becoming More Flexible,» Library Journal Online.
As for relationships with
vendors, well, the
big publishers have the right idea that it should be an agency model, even though they're pricing their
ebooks absurdly high.
As one of the
biggest vendors of
eBooks in the UK, though, you would have thought that Waterstones would have more leeway.