Chelsea Green’s plan to offer Robert Kuttner’s OABAMA’S CHALLENGE exclusively through Amazon for the first two weeks of publication, further driven by coupons for a 25-percent discount to be distributed at the Democratic convention, has backfired in a big way. Following expressions of concern and anger from independent booksellers–a group Chelsea Green has cultivated carefully in the past through such programs as their green partner stores–Barnes & Noble has substantially cut their order for the book. BN noted in a statement that “Chelsea Green Publishing has taken an unprecedented action to restrict the availability of Robert Kuttner’s ‘Obama’s Challenge’ by […]
