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Amazon To De-List Print-On-Demand Books Unless They Are Made Using Amazon's Print On Demand Service

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But today's news from Amazon about Print-on-Demand is the latest move from Amazon revealing a trend toward much more aggressive explicit lock-in attempts. (Not that it's an entirely new strategy from the folks that brought you the "one-click" patent). Amazon has effectively told publishers that if they wish to sell POD books on Amazon, they must use Amazon as the POD printer. Small/self publishers are unsurprisingly feeling bullied.

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Frankly, this seems pretty scummy to me. Sure, Amazon has the right to do this, but doing so really screws small publishers and prevents people from shopping around for the PoD option best suited to their product.

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