The second shot in law firm Hagens Berman fight against Amazon has been fired. The firm put out a press release on Thursday announcing that they had found booksellers willing...Continue reading
Category: Amazon
This retailer possesses a reputation to fit its name. It’s the single largest bookseller in the US, and is responsible for driving most ebook sales as well, while at the same time it is developing a wide variety of tech products, including Fire tablets, the Fire TV, Alexa digital assistant, and more.
Big Five Publishers Names as Co-Defendants in Amazon eBook Price-Fixing Lawsuit
It took 3 weeks longer than I expected, but the Big Five Publishers have been named as co-defendants in the Amazon ebook price-fixing lawsuit. Following an amended complaint filed this...Continue reading
Audible Will Soon Break Out Returns in ACX
Remember last November when author groups such as ALLi, SFWA, and The Authors Guild wrote an open letter to Amazon protesting Audible’s returns and exchange policies? We’re finally seeing some...Continue reading
Connecticut is Investigating Amazon’s eBook Business
When I reported last Thursday that a class-action suit had been filed against Amazon, accusing them of conspiring with publishers, I apparently had missed that the state of Conn. is...Continue reading
Amazon Sued Over Its Dominance of the eBook Market (Finally)
News broke this week that Amazon is being sued for colluding with five major publishers to inflate prices. The case was filed by the same law firm that lead the...Continue reading
Audible Makes Tiny Change to Its Execrable Return & Royalty Policy
It seems that if multiple author groups line up against it, Amazon can be forced to make a change to it policies – just not a major change. Audible sent...Continue reading
Basic Kindle Now $59, Oasis & Paperwhite to go on Sale on Cyber Monday
Amazon announced a confusing number of sales today for Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Some items are on sale today, while others won’t be going on sale until the 28th....Continue reading
Here’s Why ALLi Downgraded Audible to “Caution”
When I reported a few weeks ago that Audible was actively promoting returns as a benefit of subscribing, I apparently missed the bigger picture. It’s not just that Audible is...Continue reading
Amazon Launches New Author Portal
About three years back Amazon started beta-testing a new author portal called Amazon Author (not to be confused with Author Central). That new portal officially launched this past week with...Continue reading
Amazon is Actively Promoting Audiobook Exchanges as an Audible Subscription Feature
I wasn’t going to touch this story because I thought at first that the claim was an exaggeration or misinterpretation, but I was wrong. If you’ve been listening to the...Continue reading
Kindle Unlimited Per-Page Rate, Funding Pool Rose in September 2020
Kindle Unlimited maintained its position as one of the top five ebookstores in September 2020, paying out $32.7 million and bringing the total paid out over the past 12 months...
Kindle Create Now Outputs POD Book Files
Amazon just took another step towards complete dominance of the book market supply chain. The retailer could already handle everything from production to the retail sale, and now they are...Continue reading
Audible Launches Netflix-Style Audiobook Services in Spain and Italy
Just under a month ago Amazon launched a limited “all you can listen” service in the US called Audible Plus. It cost $8 per month and let you access around...Continue reading
Amazon Rebrands Amazon Freetime Unlimited as Amazon Kids+
Amazon’s kid-centric subscription service is old enough that its earliest users are now attending college. And just like empty-nesters who remodel a kid’s old room into a den, Amazon is...Continue reading
Kindle Unlimited Funding Pool, Per-Page Rate Rose in August 2020
Amazon announced on Tuesday that the Kindle Unlimited funding pool for August 2020 totaled $32.6 million, up two hundred grand from July. At the same, the royalty paid for each page...Continue reading