Amazon halts Disney movies preorders
A contract dispute between Amazon Inc. and publisher Hachette Book Group over some Disney movies has put into halt any pre-orders of them.
Amazon has been on an ongoing battle with the publisher over the price set for the e-books.
A group called Authors United, criticized Amazon for halting pre-orders and slowing delivery of books from some Hachette authors. In response to that, the company’s Book Team ran a message on the website, www.readersunited.com, arguing on cheaper ebooks and suggested people email Hachette CEO Michael Pietsch.
“Both Hachette and Amazon are big businesses and neither should claim a monopoly on enlightenment, but we do believe in a book industry where talent is respected and choice continues to be offered to the reading public,” Pietsch wrote on Sunday.
“Once again, we call on Amazon to withdraw the sanctions against Hachette’s authors that they have unilaterally imposed, and restore their books to normal levels of availability.”
Amazon mentions that pricing e-books at $14.99 or $19.99 is too expensive. It argues that cheaper e-books sell more copies and so ultimately generate more revenue and more royalties for authors.
Source: reuters
