As Guild president Roxana Robinson said, the offer would require the authors to take Amazon's
side against their publisher.
Not exact matches
And our tiny voices seem dwarfed when major media outlets (with the approval or backing of
publishers) trumpet their one -
sided screeds
against Indie and self - pubbers.
$ 9.99 makes it much harder for
publishers to sell hardbacks
against ebooks priced there, which undercuts their margins, which is slowly strangling the supply
side of the book industry.
In the Special Events hall of today's IDPF Digital Book event, a last minute guest speaker, Paul Aiken from the Author's Guild, gave a ten - minute one -
sided explanation of the DoJ investigation
against Apple and five
publishers but he somehow managed to insert the phrase, «Amazon's predatory pricing model,» three times, despite the fact that Amazon is not named in the investigation or lawsuits.
While on the positive
side, GoodEReader reported today from BookExpo on a school that went entirely to digital textbooks and cloud - based instructional materials, all in the space of one school year; on the negative
side, attendees were urgently cautioned that there was to be no discussion of the Department of Justice investigation
against several
publishers or anti-trust lawsuits.
In today's Publetariat Dispatch, we share some recent volleys from both
sides in the Department of Justice's ongoing antitrust suit
against Apple and five large
publishers.
That's most honourable, and I totally
side with you if you are defending the hidden community of authors who are afraid to speak
against their
publisher.
As someone who writes in a couple very different genres and has some work with
publishers while I've self - published other titles... I get so tired of hearing authors rage
against the other
side.
In addition to bringing the third - party goods, Sony has a nice catalog of their own franchises, and by not
siding with
publishers against the consumers and producing an altogether more appealing package, it looks like they've trumped Microsoft but good.
It is clear, now that the
publisher and two reviewers have put their
side of the story into the open, that Dr. Bengtsson simply lied in his scurrilous accusations
against his colleagues and one of the more respected
publishers in the Science world.