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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. Re:Uh OK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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    does that make you a rebel?

    it makes you look like another one of those 2600 reading faggots. keep up your bitching. i'd rather be creating something of my own.

  2. Huh? by CSMatt · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.' I thought that was eBay.