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May.07.2010
Macmillan probed over Sudan book deal
By Esther Bintliff
Published: May 7 2010 02:56 | Last updated: May 7 2010 02:56
Macmillan, the UK publisher whose titles include Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography and the children’s illustrated favourite The Gruffalo, is being...
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Feb.08.2010
I'm assuming anyone reading an author's blog will have heard something about this, but in case you've been hiding under a (oh, let's just say it) a Super Bowl rock the last couple of weeks: Amazon and Macmillan have been having a bit of a, well, tussle over a few minor issues.
Okay, they're...
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Feb.06.2010
Getting a first novel published is full of small milestones, and one of them is seeing it with its very own ISBN number, on its very own page of an online bookseller. Many debut authors have posted that page on FB, proud as new parents. Yes, I'm sure that by book two, this wears off, but it's a...
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Feb.06.2010
Well, it looks like as of yesterday, Amazon has restored the "buy" buttons for books published by Macmillan. During the past week, Macmillan has been negotiating terms with Amazon. Apparently they have reached an agreement. We don't know the details. Two days ago, Macmillan CEO John...
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Feb.04.2010
(Posted from The Publeconomist, published 2/4/10)
"Available at booksellers everywhere except Amazon." This was the controversial addition to a Thursday New York Times ad that Macmillan took out on behalf of author Atul Gawande's "The Checklist Manifesto." If you've been...
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Feb.04.2010
The "buy" buttons on Amazon.com for Macmillan authors have still not been restored. It has been 7 days.
In 1989, Barnes and Noble pulled all the books by Salman Rushdie from their shelves nationwide. People were not happy. Authors set up picket lines at BN stores. At least then Barnes...
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Feb.02.2010
The Authors Guild, the largest advocacy organization for authors in America, weighed in on the Amazon-MacMillan affair yesterday. Their position is, I believe, a fair and balanced position on the interests of authors as it relates to the controversy. In a rare show of solidarity, Author's Guild has...
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Feb.01.2010
Yesterday we posted a blog on the week-end brouhaha of Amazon pulling the "buy button" plug on all titles from Macmillan Publishing.
Things are beginning to sort themselves out. Amazon pretty much admitted that they were capitulating because Macmillan had a "monopoly" on their...
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Feb.01.2010
So, for those who don't know, as of this moment, Macmillan and their imprints (mine being St. Martin's Press) have been pulled off the virtual shelves of Amazon. For me, until I learned about the war I thought something awful had happened to my book.
My first hint of trouble...
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Jan.31.2010
This just received from Publishers Lunch: Amazon Answers: "Ultimately....We Will Have to Capitulate" Could publishers have triumphed so quickly with their strategy to use Apple's entry into the market to move to an agency model for selling ebooks? (Note that the etailer says "...
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