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Blog » Maralann » Spinifex eBooks no longer available for Kindle
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| Spinifex eBooks no longer available for Kindle |
23 Feb 2012 |
 It was with great disappointment and disgruntlement that Spinifex yesterday learnt of Amazon’s decision to cease sales of IPG Kindle titles.
For those who don’t know, IPG is a US distributor offering services like marketing, sales and distribution to small publishing houses. They are a vital service for those of us who are a presence in the American book market, but cannot physically distribute over there. Spinifex is just one of IPG’s 400 clients whose eBook titles will no longer be available to purchase through Amazon, for the Kindle eReader. The publishing world is reporting on this news, and many articles make the salient point that IPG did nothing wrong in their negotiations with the conglomerate, but are simply the victims of Amazon’s cutthroat narrow margins.
It should be noted that print editions of Spinifex titles are still available to purchase through Amazon. It is only Kindle eBooks that are affected. But there are alternative booksellers for our American readers wishing to purchase from the Spinifex digital list. Spinifex eBooks can be purchased as NOOK books through Barnes & Noble. They are available through IndieBound, which sources titles from independent bookstores. And IPG sell our print and digital books direct.
It is especially unfortunate that this fall-out has come when the US release of Spinifex’s best-selling ‘Big Porn Inc’ is right around the corner. ‘Big Porn Inc: Exposing the Harms of the Global Pornography Industry’ is officially released in America on March 1: but copies are now available from Barnes & Noble. The print & digital versions of ‘Big Porn Inc’ will be available as a B&N NOOK book and can be purchased directly from IPG.
Spinifex is proud to remain a client of the Independent Publishers Group, and we are very grateful to them for the superb work they do promoting and selling Spinifex’s titles overseas.— The Spinifex Team |
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