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Barnes & Noble Says It Won’t Sell Books Published by Amazon

by newmediaclay on 1/31/12, 11:33 PM with 9 comments

• by abeppu on 2/1/12, 12:27 AM

  Is there a way to interpret this as a smart decision? When your disadvantage is having less selection at higher prices and less convenience, artificially excluding a publisher from your selection seems like it only exacerbates the problem. Imagine that you're one of the people that still drives out to a bookstore to get the latest novel from your favorite author, and when you get there, you learn that your brick and mortar retailer has refused to sell it. That sounds like a terrible customer experience.

  And even if they don't want to sell Amazon's books, publicly announcing that fact seems unlikely to achieve anything.

• by MrEnigma on 2/1/12, 12:40 AM

  I first read this as any book that was sold by Amazon, but it's just the 'Amazon Press'.

  While it might be somewhat of a big deal for the authors involved, it probably won't be much of an issue for anyone else.

• by johnstkr on 1/31/12, 11:51 PM

  in other news, Chevy dealers refuse to sell F150s and Apple stores refuse to sell Galaxy Tabs