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Originally Posted by TimW
It seems that Penguin CA (perhaps other publishers?) have removed their books from Amazon, as noted in this article from the Vancouver Sun. In the picture, you'll notice the wording "This title has been removed from sale by Penguin Group, USA." There are rumors afoot that the Canadian government is offering incentives for publishers to only sell through Chapters/Indigo. I won't speculate as to the truthfulness of this rumor.] |
Authors and publishers have been negotiating territory rights for decades; digital content has made this a little trickier but it is driven by the publisher, not the bookseller, to get it right. That's all there was to the Penguin Canada issue.
Suggesting the Canadian government is offering "incentives" to sell books only through Chapters is just downright bizarre. The publishing crowd in Canada is heavily influenced and lobbied by the independents and Chapters is quite unliked by that crowd. In any case, no incentives to foreign publishers made by the Canadian government to sell only through Chapters would survive public scrutiny ... and you can bet you handcrafted bookmarks any such arrangement would be made public almost instantly.