Amazon is evil to small publishers – Webbish6 https://webbish6.com Jeannine Hall Gailey's Poetry Blog Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:40:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 44757611 https://webbish6.com/2047/ https://webbish6.com/2047/#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:40:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/2047/ I’m going to try to poem-a-day thing (otherwise known as NaPoWriMo) this April, but don’t quote me on that.
Here’s my first effort (note: this poem will self-destruct – I’m taking it down shortly.)

The Foxfire Books: In Case of Emergency, Learn to Make Glass

Poof!

In other Poetry-related news…

Amazon is acting very antitrusty, very monopoly-like, telling small publishers they’d better use their in-house (and lousy/expensive by reputation) POD printing service, Booksurge, or else loose their books’ “Buy” buttons. Holy crap, right? And, putting small publishers in a worse bind – Lightning Source’s (BookSurge’s main competitor) POD services include distribution through Ingram – Booksurge’s doesn’t. Looks like Amazon will lose a lot of good customers, and create a lot of ill-will among customers and authors, and for what – a few more pennies? More about this here, here, here, and here. Read this, and complain to Amazon about these lousy, non-small-publisher-friendly practices.

And, my April reading at Northgate has been cancelled. Sorry to all of you who planned on attending!

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