Amazon.com just launched their author store concept. Stephen King’s Amazon Author Store is here. (It makes me mental that Publisher’s Weekly doesn’t link out. I digress… ). Overdue isn’t? A single destination for all-things author related — why aren’t publishers here first? And it kills the momentum behind Shatzkin’s filedby.com initiative. Or does it? Amazon [...]
Of particular interest is the right hand column on this chart. It is almost empty. No Prime Shipping. No toys. No digital media. We just don’t have the density to make it worth Amazon’s time. I had hoped the the lack of shipping costs would make the MP3 store at least viable in Canada. By [...]
The Bezos posted a message on the front door of Amazon this morning announcing that 19 of their non-book products would now ship in plain brown packaging. He also offered customers to upload videos to the Wrap Rage gallery. This is being spun as both a green initative and a frustration-free customer experience. What exactly [...]
You can say that again. Brian McBride, the head of Amazon UK, gets a pleasant write-up at the Bookseller. He talks Kindle (coming soon) and about Amazon’s growth. His “Crunch? What crunch?” stance also gets some play at the timesonline.co.uk. I particularly liked his line that I put in the title of this post. What [...]