Amazon are not the only bookseller
Jun. 10th, 2008 10:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sheenaghpughNoted from author friend who doesn't wish to be identified:
"Amazon UK is in dispute with Hachette Livre, the biggest publishing group in Britain, and parent company of my own publisher Headline. To back up their demand for extra terms (they among others already get the best terms in the English-speaking world), Amazon are removing the 'buy the book' button from many Hachette Livre books, and withdrawing them from various promotional arrangements. [...]Hachette Livre are determined to stand firm, which I support, and hope I shall be unselfish enough to keep doing even if my own sales are affected, because this is about whether Amazon can be allowed to exploit its near-monopoly online, and its ever-growing slice of the whole market (at current growth it'll be the UK's biggest bookseller in three years). But it's worth knowing that just because a book doesn't show as available on Amazon doesn't mean it's not available elsewhere."
Now I like Amazon, I buy a lot of books there. But their info on whether something is or is not in stock can be misleading and I do get frustrated when people say they can't find something because it isn't on Amazon. There's always the publisher to go to, if it's still in print, or abebooks if it isn't.
"Amazon UK is in dispute with Hachette Livre, the biggest publishing group in Britain, and parent company of my own publisher Headline. To back up their demand for extra terms (they among others already get the best terms in the English-speaking world), Amazon are removing the 'buy the book' button from many Hachette Livre books, and withdrawing them from various promotional arrangements. [...]Hachette Livre are determined to stand firm, which I support, and hope I shall be unselfish enough to keep doing even if my own sales are affected, because this is about whether Amazon can be allowed to exploit its near-monopoly online, and its ever-growing slice of the whole market (at current growth it'll be the UK's biggest bookseller in three years). But it's worth knowing that just because a book doesn't show as available on Amazon doesn't mean it's not available elsewhere."
Now I like Amazon, I buy a lot of books there. But their info on whether something is or is not in stock can be misleading and I do get frustrated when people say they can't find something because it isn't on Amazon. There's always the publisher to go to, if it's still in print, or abebooks if it isn't.
