From "Amazon.com." Encyclopedia Britannica. Encyclopedia Britannica Online School Edition. Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2013.
Web. 10 Jan. 2013. 'The Kindle Shakes Up Publishing'. After its first full year of selling books in 1996, book publishers praised the new service as a great way to help them clear their backlists of slow-selling books. However, with the introduction of the Kindle, tensions began to build between publishers and Amazon.com. The company wanted to sell new e-books for a fixed price, well below what new printed books sold for, prompting many complaints from the publishing industry. Which statement best describes how book publishers responded to the introduction of the Kindle?
A- Publishers complained that the device was hard to use.
B- Publishers liked the device at first but then objected to pricing.
C- Publishers used the device only for books that were hard to sell.
D- Publishers preferred to sell books on the device rather than in stores.
The correct answer is b. Publishers liked the device at first but then objected to pricing.
They praised the Kindle in the sense that it helped them to sell books that were hard to sell, but later prompted many complaints on the lower than printed books fixed-price.
