[LINK] Amazon, Booksurge, POD & the Bottom Line

[Jan Whitaker]

Linkers,

One of the enablers of writers today is print-on-demand technology 
and promoting the books through services like Amazon, Barnes and 
Noble, and personal websites. To date, Amazon has offered listing of 
POD books from other POD services. Now that is changing because 
Amazon bought a POD printer themselves called Booksurge. And they are 
pulling a Microsoft/Google: changing the rules and cutting out books 
from other POD services. It sounds like when Telstra cuts out the 
other retail phone companies from the local loop distribution 
channel. Bigger can mean bigger bully and increased greed.

The article suggests alternatives, but if you get your books from 
Amazon, you may want to think again.


>http://tiny.cc/DXjUr


Jan



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