Yes, my books are affected by the Amazon-Hachette fight

[ceciliatan]

In case you missed the news from inside publishing, Amazon.com has decided it wants an even bigger discount from publishers than it has been getting, and the first publisher they’re going after is one of the Big Five, Hachette Book Group. Hachette’s imprints include venerable ones like Little, Brown and also the former Time Warner Books now called Grand Central Publishing. The romance imprint of GCP is Forever. Forever is the publisher of my Struck by Lightning Trilogy.

So if you’re trying to order Slow Surrender or Slow Seduction from Amazon, you may see surprising things like they claim the book is out of stock and will take 3-5 weeks to ship! The ebooks are still available, but they’ve taken the pre-order button off the page for Slow Satisfaction and all it says is “currently unavailable.” That’s right, they don’t even bother to say what the release date of the book is anymore, as if me or the publisher canceled or delayed it. Bullshit: it’s coming out August 26th as planned, whether Amazon sells it or not.

What can you do to help? Purchase books (AND OTHER ITEMS) from alternate retailers. Unfortunately, Hachette has no direct-to-consumer ecommerce so I can’t tell you to buy it direct from them. But you can get the books and ebooks from many other sources, which I will list under the cut.

Barnes & Noble is having a special sale on Hachette titles, in fact, and so are Book-a-Million and some other retailers! Details on the B&N Sale at the bottom of the post.

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