Amazon Escalates Its Battle Against Publishers

David Streitfeld and Melissa Eddy, reporting for the NYT:

Amazon, under fire in much of the literary community for energetically discouraging customers from buying books from the publisher Hachette, has abruptly escalated the battle.

The retailer began refusing orders late Thursday for coming Hachette books, including J.K. Rowling’s new novel. The paperback edition of Brad Stone’s “The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon” — a book Amazon disliked so much it denounced it — is suddenly listed as “unavailable.”

In some cases, even the pages promoting the books have disappeared.

John Moltz: “Time for more ebook sanctions against Apple.”

★ Friday, 23 May 2014