News you don't want to wake up to on a snowy day. Or any other day. Yes, I am a Macmillan author, as are many, many of my friends, and yes, our books are no longer available on Amazon.
Amazon Pulls Macmillan Books Over E Book Price Disagreement
Amazon Pulls Macmillan Books Over Pricing Rift
Publishers' Weekly Special Report
Um - can't we all just get along?
(Screenwriting Tricks For Authors is still up for sale, as it's not a Macmillan book. I find this surreal.)
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I see.
Amazon: Fail!
Here's the response to my email saying I would like to know what's going on:
We are working with the publisher to make their titles available as soon as possible and at the lowest possible prices for our customers.
We will e-mail you when these titles are available, which we hope will be soon.
I wish somebody would just give Amazon a big wedgie. Those guys have gotten too big for their britches.
Macmillan is the bad guy, I think.
Trying to make Amazon raise the price of e-books to 15 bucks. You can buy a real paperback for cheaper.
Check it out: http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-hey-john-sargent-ceo-of-macmillan-books-screw-you-2010-1
I hope this gets resolved and you don't lose any book sales as a result of this mess. I just noticed an analysis of the Amazon/Macmillan dispute at http://accrispin.blogspot.com/2010/02/dispatches-from-ebook-wars-macmillan-vs.html
This is a good post explaining the issues behind the argument and why many people are specifically unhappy with Amazon rather than Macmillan:
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