Re: amazon and filtering

From: "Elizabeth Burton"

> Joseph,
>
> When Amazon orders from LSI, they get the same 40% as any other
> bookstore. For LSI to give them 55%, the publishers would have 
> to give
> LSI 70%. It's precisely the impossibility of doing this at 
> digital per-
> copy costs that makes the access to Ingram via LSI a necessity.

I was trying to keep it brief - sorry if I seemed to be saying 
that.

.............
as I also did why Amazon wants 55%--they're already getting
> that from "regular" publishers and so are well within their 
> rights

And that makes sense?   Only if you want the deep cuts for 
customers to push brick bookstores into liquidation - thus 
sterngthening Amazon's monopoly.

 They're saying if you
> want a POD book to be available for direct sale at Amazon you 
> must
> allow them to print it on-site.

Which is a restriction of trade, whichever way you cut it.

..............
> There's nothing monopolistic about it.

That, then, is where we totally disagree.

 However, if I want to run a
> classified ad in my local newspaper, I have to pay them to 
> insert it.

Well, mostly no, for quite a few ads, and online ones!   Big ads 
and big business are another matter.   The newspaper philosophy, 
and the 'new' online marketing wisdom, is to supply a lot of free 
information and possibilities to attract browsers, specially if 
they are focussed ones.   Any action to reduce the appearance of 
online choice is counter-productive to that.

...........
> Liz
> Elizabeth Burton, Executive Editor
> Zumaya Publications LLC
> http://www.zumayapublications.com
> Opening doors to the creative mind

Again I say if Amazon is honest and straightforward it should 
both be making open statements about its action, and being clear 
what the objectives are.    It has already denied the majority of 
ebook publishers - small or not - a place on their virtual 
shelves.   Now another group of small publishers who appear 
defenceless.

Who next?

Joseph Harris 


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