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The problem with Kindle Store, Eowyn, is that it only carries books by publishers with a
US presence (US address, social security and tax numbers, and banking). We're UK-based so -- although all our single edition paperbacks by authors worldwide and on which we hold international rights are still on offer at Amazon -- we, and hundreds of other small non-US houses -- are locked out and, after eight years, our ebooks disappeared overnight.
Amazon says there are 'no immediate plans' to change the Kindle Store system to allow foreign publishers a crack of the whip. No explanation ... just that. I have a feeling non-US houses are likely to see a smiliar lock-out on their ebook versions with Barnes & Noble now that *the nook* has launched. All our ebook versions have disappeared from their site.
I'm not too concerned. Amazon and B&N are predators and I'd prefer not to join them in their game. If I can make our ebooks more presentable in smaller, altertnative and honest retail stores -- less monopolising, manipulative and downright greedy and with no nefarious vested interest in hardware and jealously guarded format and DRM -- I'll feel I'm doing my job as I always promised our authors and readers it would be done.
Hoots. Neil
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