Amazon takes a company's e-books out of stores after disagreement
After a disagreement over the renewal of a contract with independent book distributor and publisher Independent Publishers Group, Amazon took the Chicago company's titles out of its Kindle e-book store on Monday.
Five thousand of IPG鈥檚 books were taken out of the book giant鈥檚 Kindle e-book store. Paper versions of IPG鈥檚 books are still available on Amazon鈥檚 website.
鈥淭hey decided they didn't like the terms we offered,鈥� Suchomel said of the contract dispute between IPG and Amazon. 鈥淎nd we said, 'We're not going to change,' and they removed [the e-books].鈥�
He said he didn鈥檛 feel he could further discuss the disagreement between the two companies.
鈥淎mazon has issues with us talking too much,鈥� Suchomel said.
IPG is the second-biggest distributor of books published independently in the country. Mark Suchomel, president of IPG, that e-book sales on Amazon only accounted for about 5 percent of the company鈥檚 earnings, so there isn鈥檛 any possibility that the removal of their e-books will cause them to go out of business.
鈥淚f they want to buy our books, they can buy them,鈥� Suchamel said of Amazon. 鈥淲e are happy to deal with them.鈥�
Amazon didn't return calls for comment, said the Tribune.
Molly Driscoll is a Monitor contributor.
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