Amazon announced that its contract with Bloomsbury has expired, and it will stop selling Bloomsbury print books in the UK, Europe, and Australia, and Bloomsbury Kindle books worldwide at midnight on January 23. Amazon’s contract with Bloomsbury expired last year and was extended multiple times as the parties failed to reach an agreement. Amazon’s position expressed in their release is that: “despite our best efforts over the last seven months, Bloomsbury has refused to engage in a good faith negotiation to discuss a new contract to sell their titles in our store.” They continue, “Publishers in every country have many […]
