Amazon/Hachette

[lagilman]

Mostly I'm staying out of this because there's so much posturing and BS on both sides, it's like having two mastadons butting heads/tusks while you're a wee burrowing mammal just trying not to get stepped on, but if you want a wee burrowing animal's take on it, Scalzi as usual has something to say...

And so does Walter Jon Williams.

And yeah, pretty much What They're Saying.

Comments

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

Amazon doesnt quite get that authors dont like living in their cars and scavenging for food in dumpsters..

[lagilman]

To be brutally fair, neither do the people who bitch if a book - paper or digital - costs more than 3.99.

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

I bitch if the mmpb and the ebook are the same price... and buy the mmpb. Cuz, same price, want tangible!

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Oh, as usual, dear.

I'm working up a long list of books I want to buy; aside from Barnes and Noble, what online stores do you recommend for actual print books?

I hope Colbert picks this up. He's been fighting back hard on this one.

[lagilman]

A lot of the indies have taken to shipping, at competitive rates. Mysterious Galaxy is always top of my list for genre...

[mtlawson.livejournal.com]

I finally got a chance to finish reading Scalzi's article, and his points are pretty spot on. His last line, however, is applicable to just about any employer.