Amazon Pulls 5,000 Kindle E-books in Contract Pricing Dispute

Well, there Amazon goes again, throwing its weight around. When it came time to renew its e-book sales contract with the Independent Publishers Group, a distributor for 400 smaller client publishers, Amazon demanded better terms than the previous contract had offered. IPG declined, and today Amazon disabled the “buy” button on the distributor’s 5,000 Kindle e-book titles.

IPG President Mark Suchomel told PaidContent, “We’re offering [the e-book sales terms] we offered last week, and somehow they think it’s not quite good enough.”