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What left in the filter after I run the hot water of my mind through the beans of reality to make an infused drink of boredom, indifference, and knowing satisfaction.
- Microsoft/Yahoo/Amazon form unholy alliance to try to pants Google (God loves it when devils fight… and by devils, I mean corporations… and by fight, I mean try to bankrupt each other… and by God, I mean me)
- Speaking of corporate douchery, Amazon UK will now charge publishers £500 for “rejected deliveries”, among other things
- The party’s over… RH cancels its Frankfurt book bash, much to the disappointment of publishing rummies everywhere
- HC brings back 98 out of print titles
- Seems Margaret Atwood is EVERYWHERE these days… Ever since she was uploaded to the internet, she can sure get around a lot quicker
- Dan Brown leader of yet ANOTHER statisical pack: books people don’t care to hold on to… Ah, Danny Boy: the high-end napkin of the literary world… just enough linen in with the paper to make the uncultured think they’re getting a fancy meal, but not so much that you’d want to shake out the snot and face-wipings to run his filthy ass through the washer…
- NS Writers Federatrion has a list of winners from their emerging writers contests
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August 21st, 2009 at 10:31 am
Let’s see. Google’s book project is a threat to Amazon. And Google’s search business, not to mention it’s cloud computing and operating system, is a threat to Microsoft. And Yahoo now jumps through pretty much any hoop MS tells them to. Yup. This unholy alliance makes perfect sense to me.
Ahhh Google. And to think you started out just wanting to catalogue the world’s information…
August 21st, 2009 at 12:07 pm
By charging a fine on rejected deliveries, Amazon is just bringing to the book world the same methods that most large retailers now use. Try being a distributor supplying Wal Mart, Home Depot, Canadian Tire, Zellers, and so on. Each has its own requirements, and any deviation from said requirements results in a fine to the distributor.
Distributors, who were initially dazzled by the millions of dollars of annual sales to Wal Mart, etc., are now beginning to understand that supplying large retailers isn’t particularly profitable. Amazon is jumping onto this bandwagon just as it’s losing momentum.
And publishing isn’t the same as distributing widgets. People want a specific book, not just any book that will fill one inch of shelf space. Imagine the impact on Amazon if just two major publishers decided to stop shipping to them. If, say, people couldn’t buy the latest Dan Brown opus from amazon.com.