LSI ending their distribution relationship with Amazon

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The POD manufacturer Lightning Source International (LSI), owned by Ingram Content Group, announced on Friday (yes, a typical release-bad-news-on-Friday-and-hope-nobody-pays-attention move) that LSI will no longer be distributing directly to Amazon, B&N, Baker & Taylor, Espresso Book Machine, and NACSCORP, and to other wholesale distributors in the U.S. Instead, all titles will now be distributed only via Ingram Book Group, who in turn will resell to all retailers and other wholesale distributors. What this means is that Ingram, who previously did not earn a fee on LSI sales to the aforementioned Read More …

Another war is brewing as libraries seek ebook file ownership

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This is an excerpt from the upcoming second edition of The Global Indie Author, slated for release in October 2012. A new war is brewing over ebooks, this time between libraries and publishers. Libraries want to be able to buy an ebook once and loan it in perpetuity, “just like with print books,” they argue. This is, however, nonsense: physical books deteriorate, get lost or stolen or damaged, and must therefore be replaced. Digital books do not unless the format becomes obsolete, which is unlikely to happen with the open-source Read More …