Booksellers Are Again Angry at Amazon

Just moments after Amazon announced late yesterday afternoon that it is buying Marshall Cavendish's U.S. book titles, Twitter and Facebook were buzzing not just with the news, but with reactions from booksellers like Suzanna Hermans, co-owner of Oblong Books & Music in Rhinebeck and Millerton, N.Y., who tweeted that she was “excited” to be returning her Marshall Cavendish stock in the morning. Todd Dickinson, co-owner of Aaron's Books in Lititz, Pa. commented: “We’ll treat them the same as self-published authors that use Amazon, only on consignment if they are local and link to our store.”