Amazon woos lit agents worried about e-books undermining p-books

November 10, 2009 | 5:46 am

By David Rothman

Issues such as prices and delayed publication of e-books came up in the discussions. Did text to speech, too?

See Crain’s and The Bookseller for known details. Image is from Wikipedia.

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"D2C will stand little chance against the ease of a megastore (for customers) until contract clauses that ban authors/publishers from selling their ebooks for less ..."

Michael W. Perry on "OR Books publisher suggests ‘disintermediating Amazon’ by selling D2C - Posted on May 26, 2012

"Catana - I agree. It is self evident imho. One solution is for Publishers to develop a joint venture platform to market and sell their ..."

Howard on "OR Books publisher suggests ‘disintermediating Amazon’ by selling D2C - Posted on May 26, 2012

"What Amazon is selling is its ability to function like a bookstore. A place where customers can browse and buy without having to run around ..."

Catana on "OR Books publisher suggests ‘disintermediating Amazon’ by selling D2C - Posted on May 26, 2012

"@Frank Lowney: The DOJ is only suing for *conspiracy* not for Agency pricing. They've made that very clear. They aren't suing Smashwords and the other ..."

Felix Torres on "Apple submits filing insisting Amazon is the monopolist and Apple helped foster competition - Posted on May 26, 2012

"Oakes mixes the usual dose of hysterical fantasy about Amazon with a germ of a new idea ... a willingness, at long last, of actually ..."

Howard on "OR Books publisher suggests ‘disintermediating Amazon’ by selling D2C - Posted on May 26, 2012

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Amazon woos lit agents worried about e-books undermining p-books

November 10, 2009 | 5:46 am

By David Rothman

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