As most of our readership has likely seen by now, on Tuesday afternoon the Amazon Books team put up another unsigned, closed to comment post (or what Barry Eisler would call a shameful “pointless, pernicious, promiscuous anonymity”) on the Kindle Forum. The post is said to offer “specific information about Amazon’s objectives” in their negotiations with Hachette Book Group. If you have not read the post yet, check it out. It raises many questions, among them: – Amazon is very careful with their words, even if not elegant. The post begins, “A key objective is lower e-book prices.” A lot of traditional […]
