Comments on: Things Publishers Fear: # 1 ~ Amazon http://greenlampmedia.com/2010/02/08/things-publishers-fear-no-1-amazon/ We Make Stories Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:16:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Cathy Macleod http://greenlampmedia.com/2010/02/08/things-publishers-fear-no-1-amazon/comment-page-1/#comment-97 Cathy Macleod Sat, 27 Mar 2010 09:35:44 +0000 http://greenlampmedia.com/?p=208#comment-97 Publishers with good books should simply bypass Amazon and spend more effort on Internet marketing. Publishers with good books should simply bypass Amazon and spend more effort on Internet marketing.

]]> By: eoinpurcell http://greenlampmedia.com/2010/02/08/things-publishers-fear-no-1-amazon/comment-page-1/#comment-64 eoinpurcell Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:53:39 +0000 http://greenlampmedia.com/?p=208#comment-64 This is true! It is certainly a worry. As long as publishers can make connections though, I think the current state can be changed. Macmillan do a good job connecting via Tor.com, if they could find a similar model for other niches ... This is true!

It is certainly a worry. As long as publishers can make connections though, I think the current state can be changed. Macmillan do a good job connecting via Tor.com, if they could find a similar model for other niches …

]]> By: Karen Wester Newton http://greenlampmedia.com/2010/02/08/things-publishers-fear-no-1-amazon/comment-page-1/#comment-63 Karen Wester Newton Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:49:31 +0000 http://greenlampmedia.com/?p=208#comment-63 >Having already surrendered the publisher-reader relationship. . . I think it's worse than that. The Amazon/Macmillan feud may have kicked off a lot of sympathy for Macmillan in the publishing world, but to a lot of Amazon's customers, Macmillan is now actively the bad guy. Most of them never paid much attention to who published the books they read, but they're all fired up about it now. >Having already surrendered the publisher-reader relationship. . .

I think it’s worse than that. The Amazon/Macmillan feud may have kicked off a lot of sympathy for Macmillan in the publishing world, but to a lot of Amazon’s customers, Macmillan is now actively the bad guy. Most of them never paid much attention to who published the books they read, but they’re all fired up about it now.

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