Comments on: The whole ‘Amazon+Random House vs Apple+Penguin’ conflagration

By: radio_babylon

radio_babylon — Tue, 11 May 2010 21:37:28 +0000

i just like good books. theres no shortage of those in the kindle store, sold by non-agency publishers. as long as that continues to remain the case, ill just keep humming along, enjoying my books, and let everything else shake out on its own.

truth is, the whole thing is sort of yawn-worthy. its like a boring remake of the music-industry-electronic-distribution show. hard to stay interested when youve already seen the ending…

By: Mikey

Mikey — Tue, 11 May 2010 19:24:20 +0000

Penguin books? I would not buy anything they sell any way.

By: switch11

switch11 — Tue, 11 May 2010 19:06:27 +0000

Amazon would get a lot of negative PR. Amazon have to be very careful – they have to at all times make it clear they want to sell all books.

We aren’t far away from legal challenges and other complicated moves.

By: Kamakazi

Kamakazi — Tue, 11 May 2010 18:59:56 +0000

What do you think would happen if Amazon stopped selling physical copies of Penguin published books? I am of the belief that Penguin needs Amazon more than Amazon needs Penguin. I wonder what percentage of each of their sales figures comes from each other? Doing just a quick search I only come up with 100,000ish Penguin books on Amazon while there are a total of millions.