The digital reading service subscription against Amazon, Kindle Unlimited, was launched in the UK there are about ten days. Already several small publishers grumble and call their lawyers, noting that their titles were included in the unlimited supply against their advice. Some homes have declined the proposal, in vain, still others argue they were not consulted at all before being included in the catalog.
Amazon would not listening?
The catalog Unlimited, the Channel, includes 650,000 ebooks for reading at will be priced at £ 7.99 per month. If larger homes are still absent from the supply side, there is already such independent Bloomsbury, Scholastic, Faber, The History Press, Canongate, Atlantic, Granta, Head of Zeus, Hesperus Press, Michael O ‘ Mara and Icon Books … For a large majority of titles published by Amazon Publishing and self-published other authors via Kindle Direct Publishing.
The arrival of Kindle Unlimited UK is already enough to worry the traditional publishing houses and other booksellers. In the style of James Daunt, the bookstore chain Waterstones, which fears that the average book rate not found in futures seriously devalued. Particularly on the audio book. With this episode of forced conscription, fears are unlikely to subside.
Publishers concerned themselves “ powerless ” to remove contractually their own securities of the new service Amazon. Because the firm pays them according to Jeff Bezos its reseller model, that is to say that every time these titles are consumed via Unlimited, publishers are paid as if they had been purchased at retail. And the same for their authors.
The bold cheetah pirouette, of paying these loans as sales, would it legal I need regular. Because they fear retaliation from the giant, according to The Bookseller, vendors shipped against their will would have preferred to testify anonymously. These are now calling in their lawyers to review the legality of the situation.
One of the publishers interviewed thus raises the question of whether one is faced with a first round of regimentation that could call others, and why not targeting of larger publishers. For now, Amazon has not yet revealed any comments regarding these contributors despite them.
(via The Bookseller )
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