A publishing division
of Amazon.com, Inc.(NASDAQ:AMZN) that is based in New York has entered into a
partnership with a book distributor Ingram Content Group. This partnership is
expected to play a role in easing out the tension in the e-book industry.
According to PaidContent, the deal is supposed to let competitors of Amazon
like Barnes & Noble and Apple to sell Amazon titles.
The chief content
officer of Ingram Content Group has stated that the company is ready to welcome
Amazon’s adult group to its list of publishers, who use the services. This deal
does not entail West Coast imprints of Amazon.
The heated affair in
between Barnes & Noble, the largest brick and mortar bookseller, and Amazon
is known to all. Matter started worsening when Amazon had launched Kindle Fire
Tablet and declared exclusive deal with DC comics to sell digital copies of
DC’s 100 graphic nobles, solely on the Fire.
As a response to this
deal with DC, Barnes & Noble had taken down the physical copies of the
titles from its store saying that it will not sell books it did not have
digital rights to. Similar action was taken by Books-a-million, another reputed
bookseller. Presently, Barnes & Noble has access to a few of Amazon’s
titles. No spokesperson from Barnes & Noble has responded to requests made
to the company to comment on this deal.
Amazon’s olive branch
does not seem likely to make things better for Apple, who has alleged that
Amazon was the driving force behind the legal prosecution over price fixing of
e-books. Apple has denies all such speculations.
Competitors of Amazon
are under no obligation that they have to offer e-books. some of the features
titles are Penny Marshall’s ‘My Mother Was Nuts’, Jessica Valenti’s ‘Why Have
Kids?’ and Timothy Feriss’ ‘The 4-Hour Chef’.
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