She said the complaint is still in the process of being served to Amazon and the publishers and declined to state how it came about or
whether other bookstores had been approached to be party to the suit.
Not exact matches
So, in the name of antitrust, the level playing field of the past two years — agency model e-books were priced the same
whether sold by Amazon, Barnes & Noble or independent
bookstores — will likely revert to a situation where a near - monopoly power determines pricing and most
other retailers see their already - smaller market share shrink.
If getting published traditionally doesn't especially help you to get your books on the shelves of stores (unless you are talented, awesome, hard - working, and lucky enough to be a Jim Butcher), then you've got a legitimate reason to question
whether you want to roll the dice with traditional publishers (who absolutely offer many great advantages), or get 70 % royalties on your indie ebooks and get paid 80 % of your print book's list price (minus the cost of POD printing) with your print - on - demand book via Lightning Source and their 20 % short discount option — which gets you right into Amazon.com and
other online
bookstores, just like the big boys do.
But a book is really a story,
whether it's being delivered in printed pages, via audio, on a Kindle or
other e-reader, or by an author standing up in a
bookstore to read.
Whether you are printing a hardcover novel, cookbook, yearbook, children's book, or any
other book genre, you can now turn your dream of getting published into a
bookstore quality hardback edition.
Add all the
other digital books or documents that any
bookstore might ever be able to acquire or offer —
whether as a college
bookstore agregating instructor's packets and lecture notes or a store like Northshire creating its own POD - and - digital imprint.
-LSB-...] No matter what you think of the retail king Amazon, and
whether you attribute the demise of
bookstores to them or
other market forces (including the failure of said book stores to adapt to a new market), they have opened up several programs that are helpful to libraries.