Copia Runs Sale on eBooks Dropped by Amazon

The publishing industry has responded since Independent Publishers Group (IPG) announced that Amazon did not renew its contract last week—removing almost 5,000 books from the Kindle store.

Author Jim Hanas, whose book was removed from the Kindle Store, reacted by removing the Amazon buy button from the website for his book Why They Cried. Now eBook social networking site Copia is running a sale on some of the eBooks that were removed from the Kindle Store.

The Copia newsletter explains: “Recently, a very big bookseller has stopped selling eBooks from the Independent Publishers Group. Why? Allegedly because the scrappy, innovative IPG refused the bookseller’s ‘laws of the jungle’ pricing demands. Copia salutes IPG for protecting their authors. Check out our sale of IPG classics and bestsellers.”

eBookNewser has more: “As part of the sale, Pamela Des Barre‘s I’m With the Band is $8.78, John Austin‘s So Now You’re a Zombie: A Handbook for the Newly Undead is now $6.99 and Ann Fairbairn‘s Five Smooth Stones is now $10.94.”

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