Amazon – Macmillan Agreement?
By Therese Walsh | February 5, 2010 |
Publishers Weekly is reporting that the Buy buttons are back for Macmillan authors’ books on Amazon.com. Says PW:
Although the buttons were not restored to all of its titles by late Friday afternoon, sources said an agreement has been completed and the e-tailer has begun putting back the direct buy option. It was not known if Macmillan offered any concessions to get the buttons restored.
Good news at last.
Therese Walsh (she/her) co-founded Writer Unboxed in 2006 and is the site’s editorial director. She was the editor of WU’s only book, Author in Progress, and runs the Writer Unboxed UnConference.
Her second novel, The Moon Sisters, received starred reviews and was named one of the best books of the year by Library Journal and Book Riot.
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