This post primarily concerns Amazon practices around paperback sales and what are now called “sponsored products” that persisted until circa 2013.
[dropcap]Writing[/dropcap] gets in the way of blogging, as it should, and so I have been silent over the last several weeks and the topics I want to address are stacking up. I’ve been wrestling with a particularly sticky issue–bookselling models–and realized that there’s one part of it that is necessary to address, but has so many tangents and unique aspects that it deserves its own space. (more…)