The US Justice Department has brought suit against
Apple and five major trade book publishers for anti-competitive (or “price
fixing”) practices in trying to counter Amazon’s dominance in the eBook and Kindle
market. (There is also Barnes and Noble’s
Nook to think about.)
Industry observers sometimes claim that Amazon sold
Kindle books at a loss to make them popular.
The story is here.
In practice, older books are often difficult to
continue selling, unless they are best-sellers or hit some popular niche in the
how-to markets. I’ve gotten calls from
my own cooperative publisher about slack sales of my old books (the most recent
is 2002), and my only principled answer is new material, in this case, a novel. I’ve discussed it on my main blog and will
have some sort of update here soon.
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