Amazon, Hatchette, and War

They're not getting fonder of one another. The Digital Reader points out the dispute has been going on for a while. Publishers Weekly reports on the latest skirmish, damaging to authors. The Bookseller comments on the escalation, which means many soon to be released books cannot be preordered and may not appear on Amazon at all.

Instead of the option to pre-order, certain major titles are listed as “currently unavailable”, with customers offered the option of signing up to be emailed when the book is available. Physical editions of J K Rowling’s next Galbraith novel, The Silkworm, out in the US on 19th June, and Tom Rob Smith’s The Farm, released in the US on 3rd June, are among the many titles affected by the removal of the pre-order option on the Amazon US site today.