John Baker’s Blog

This post is reproduced from Bookarazzi:
Amazon has been removing the “buy button” from some of the Hachette Livre books and also removing some of their titles from promotional positions such as “Perfect Partner”, in order to apply pressure on them to give Amazon even better commercial terms than it presently receives.
Larger British book retailers already [...]

This week both The Sunday Times and The Literary Saloon comment on the practice of booksellers making publishers pay to have their books displayed on high street shelves.
When you go into your local bookshop and see the books laid out on the tables, or look over the recommendations, there is something in you which assumes [...]