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Amazon Insists Publishers Use Their On-Demand Printer

Posted by kdawson on from the why-that's-blackmail dept.

Lawrence Person writes "According to a story up on Writer's Weekly, Print on Demand publishers are being told to use Amazon's own BookSurge POD printer or else Amazon will disable the 'buy' button for their books. After hemming and hawing, an Amazon/BookSurge rep 'finally admitted that books not converted to BookSurge would have the "buy" button turned off on Amazon.com, just as we'd heard from several other POD publishers who had similar conversations with Amazon/BookSurge representatives... their eventual desire is to have no books from other POD publishers available on Amazon.com.' So much for Amazon's Vision Statement: 'Our vision is to be earth's most customer centric company; to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online.'"

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  1. Amazon also won't sell my homemade drugs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am outraged! Good thing I just made some homemade prozac out of ice cream and bleach.

  2. Re:How flexable is POD? by letxa2000 · · Score: 2, Funny

    The thing is, it's large format, full-color, and printed in the shape of a triangle. I wonder if Amazon would even want to print this themselves.

    I wonder if anyone would want to buy it??

  3. Re:Amazon is just like all the rest.... by daveb · · Score: 2, Funny

    i mean remember we're in America here, ebooks don't give you the right to print them out, normally... much less get them PODed?
    No

    No we're not.