Antellus considers dropping Kindle products from its catalogue

Antellus, an independent publisher and seller of science fantasy adventure and nonfiction books on related subjects, has a tough choice to make concerning Kindle products in its catalogue.

"A conflict of interest has arisen between Data Text Platform, Amazon’s ereader publishing engine, and Antellus," author and CEO Theresa M. Moore said. "Books which had been published as ebook editions for the Kindle format, and retired to make room for new and updated editions with new ASINs, are being sold even after they were marked retired and taken off line. DTP has not explained why it also has chosen to park the new images on the old catalogue listings and in other ways made the new editions unsellable. Emails to their feedback address has not produced any real results. The practical effect is that Antellus will not lose anything by switching to other ereaders to continue its product offerings in other formats."

Ms. Moore is also entertaining the notion of calling for a boycott of Amazon by other publishers not satisfied with Amazon’s seller agreement, which allows Amazon to modify and/or sell books from its suppliers in whatever format it chooses at its own discretion.

Antellus offers its books only from its own web site and affiliate partners, including Lulu, Bards and Sages, Amazon Kindle, Scribd and Smashwords.

For more information about Antellus and the author, visit their web site: http://www.antellus.com.

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Posted: June 16th, 2009
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