Amazon -- Jumping on the Collective Bandwagon

There’s quite a stir these days with the rumblings about Amazon trying to basically corner the print on demand market. What it means for small publishers, like myself, is perhaps a way of life coming to an end -- before I even get started. I’m going into a wait and see -- my book is scheduled for release in June of this year and perhaps there will be a different scenario by that time. Again, only time will tell. Anyone interested in reading about what’s going on can visit this page, writersweekly. Angela Hoy has a ton of links in relation to what’s happening almost up to the moment. http://www.writersweekly.com/amazon.php

Another good one is Shel Horowitz’s write up at http://principledprofit.com/good-business-blog/amazons-stupid-anti-competitive-move/2008/03/29/

Victoria Strauss at http://accrispin.blogspot.com/2008/03/victoria-strauss-use-booksurge-or-die.html/

Some more great publishing links

I signed up for a newsletter put out by Aaron Shephard, and it's about linking your website to Amazon correctly. Here's his URL, http://www.aaronshep.com/

It's a pretty comprehensive listing on how to correctly link your books through Amazon. He has many other articles also you can look through to get new, innovative ideas of publishing your book. Aaron's book is a wonderful resource and it's called, AIMING AT AMAZON, The NEW Business of Self Publishing.