Photo by Betty Scharf

Creator of Kindle Nation Daily and BookGorilla

Interview starts at 15:56

Amazon has built this colossus in the retail industry by having the best pricing and the best availability ever imagined. And now what Amazon has done is basically to say that it’s not going to use its powerful marketing tools of price and availability to benefit Hachette’s print books. Why wouldn’t Amazon have the right to make that decision? They’ve never said they’re not going to carry Hachette’s print books, but it’s up to them whether they want to hold inventory or they just want to fulfill order by order. And it’s up to them whether they want to take preorders or just start shipping the book when it arrives. I think it’s quite an interesting notion to think that they owe anything to Hachette in terms of using their own price and availability infrastructure to benefit Hachette if Hachette isn’t going to agree to a contract with them.

News

Request an invitation to Amazon’s launch event June 18th in Seattle

Video of customer reactions to new Amazon device at YouTube – June 4, 2014

“The Most interesting thing about Amazon’s 3D phone might be how you pay for itâ€Â by Dan Frommer at Quartz – June 5, 2014

Announcement: Hachette/Amazon Business Interruption at Amazon forum – May 27, 2014

Tech Tip

A way to streamline the fetching of notes and highlights at your kindle.amazon.com page

Interview with Stephen Windwalker

Kindle Nation Daily

BookGorilla

BookGorilla app for Kindle Fire and Android tablets

Author Earnings reports by Hugh Howey

Content

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

The Fault in Our Stars movie trailer

Next Week’s Guest

Russ Grandinetti,  Amazon’s vice president – Kindle content

Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named “Well, You Needn’t.” This version is “Ra-Monk” by Eval Manigat on the “Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive” CD by Public Transit Recording” CD.

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