Of course, that's not the only thing
publishers are upset about.
Obviously, a number of
publishers are upset about this and feel it's just another example of Amazon using its considerable status to make demands on the publishers; another contract term that has raised ire is the requirement that the publisher inform Amazon before offering its titles to another retailer at a lower price, despite the fact that this requirement is actually in accordance with a German law that requires all booksellers to sell each specific title at the same price throughout the country, including ebooks.
Not exact matches
If my conjecture
about Linn's offense
is correct, then she has not violated copyright, nor has she done anything that would
upset a
publisher.
As The Huffington Post notes, the new policy further angers retailers,
publishers and politicians who
are already
upset about the company's sales tax policies and over the Amazon Kindle lending library.
Moreover, the traditional
publishers are REALLY
upset about Amazon's potential stranglehold on the book market.
But I will say that Amazon loses money on a lot of books it sells — and that
's why
publishers are so
upset about it.
Only last month, for instance, Malamud
was upset about an exclusive contract between the Government Accountability Office and
publisher Thomson West to scan Congressional legislative histories.