While I'd love for everyone out there to buy my books...

[sleigh]

I don't want any of you to buy my books from amazon while good friends and fellow writers have had their books summarily removed from amazon through no action of their own. So for the time being, I've removed all amazon links from my website.

Yeah, I know. Amazon isn't going to notice or care. But hey...

And completely off-topic, I just gotta say that Mahler's 2nd Symphony is a most gorgeous piece of music, and I love it more every time I hear it.

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[jdonat.livejournal.com]

Nope. I got Suicide Kings from Borders.
Now that I'm thinking about that book, how did you folks write it? It's not like just about all the other Wild Card books -it's not seperate short stories that tie into the whole, but seperate chapters running multiple plot lines without specific authors for each segment.

PS. it's good. I can also see, reading all three of the current set (2000's) back to back...it took a bit for youse authors to get back into rhythm. I thought the writing got better as the books continued....

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

http://www.salon.com/technology/apple/index.html?story=/books/laura_miller/2010/02/01/macmillan_vs_amazon

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[sleigh.livejournal.com]

I agree with much of what she says -- much of it is nothing new, or (like the fact that amazon is actually losing money on the best-sellers priced at $9.99) are details I've discovered myself through following this ruckus. One thing I think she misses is that while she notes that the publishers will actually make less money per sale via Apple's contract, by using variable, flexible pricing, the publishers are trying to protect the viability of print books in a marketplace where e-books form a significant percentage of the sales.

And while she points out that amazon's claim that no e-book can be more than $9.99 is bogus, she also -- like most of the mainstream news sources -- doesn't mention that Macmillan's proposed pricing structure goes from as low as $5.99 to $14.95: they're not simply raising the price.

I'm still not convinced to buy your contention that publishers are doomed. Will publishing change? Absolutely. But I still believe that the current publishers can find a business model that works in the new reality.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

"But I still believe that the current publishers can find a business model that works in the new reality."

Depends on how you look at it. "Publishing" is not doomed; there will be something in the future called that. It will be similar, but different. (Like newspapers, or record labels, or movie studios." But whether the current publishers are agile enough to adapt their business model before some upstart company figures it out -- I'm less optimistic. Publishing is about as backwards an industry as I've ever experienced.

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[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

I've been mostly not buying books from Amazon for years. I'm sure they haven't noticed or cared about my actions either.