Amazon.com has decided to squeeze print-on-demand publishers, who in turn will squeeze authors. (Not that some don't already.)
I'm not part of the POD world, but it's easy to see where this goes next. This is the take from Writers Weekly (which has personal connections as a POD publisher):
Amazon.com Telling POD Publishers
- Let BookSurge Print Your Books, or Else...Some Print on Demand (POD) publishers are privately screaming "Monopoly!" while others are seething with rage over startling phone conversations they're having with Amazon/BookSurge representatives. Why isn't anybody talking about it openly? Because they're afraid - very, very afraid.
Amazon.com purchased BookSurge, a small POD publisher/printer back in 2005. Amazon also lists and sells titles for the largest POD printer, Lightning Source, which is owned by Ingram (the large book distributor). According to their website, Lightning Source serves more than 4,300 publisher clients and has more than 400,000 titles in their system.
The whole story:
http://www.writersweekly.com/the_latest_from_angelahoycom/004597_03272008.html
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