Mr. Preston is certainly losing this battle.
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Mr. Preston is not one of those writers who checks his Amazon ranking on a regular basis, or even totes up his sales. He would rather be writing. But he recently thought he should get some numbers from Hachette. They came in the other morning, and they seemed worth sharing with his wife, Christine.
About half his book sales used to come from Amazon. But since the retailer started discouraging orders, his paperback sales are down 61 percent and his e-book sales are down 62 percent. His last novel, written with Mr. Child and published by Hachette in November, was “White Fire.” A week before publication, 25,000 Amazon customers had ordered a copy.
Their new novel, “The Lost Island,” came out Tuesday. It had only a few thousand pre-orders, all made before Amazon lowered the boom on Hachette and stopped selling forthcoming Hachette books.
Mrs. Preston, a photographer, studied the bleak sheet.
“It’s gotten personal,” she said. “I knew you were going to take a hit, but I had no idea it would be like this.”
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If those are total percentages and not just "at-Amazon" percentages, I don't get why he's advocating for Hatchette.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/08/bu...azon.html?_r=0