> “I have supported Amazon for as long as Amazon has existed. I’ve been published for 20 years now and you have sold so many of my books,” she wrote in a Facebo

> “I have supported Amazon for as long as Amazon has existed. I’ve been published for 20 years now and you have sold so many of my books,” she wrote in a Facebook posting she also sent to the retailer. Why does she not blame her publisher for setting the price of her books to be too high[0]? This seems to be a regular merchant/vendor price dispute - nothing new about it. The publisher is just a middleman here[1] - if she were trying to sell directly to Amazon at the same price, Amazon's reaction (presumably) would be to refuse to sell the book based on the prices she set. At that point, she'd have two options: (1) Lower the price of the book, or (2) Accept that the book won't be available on Amazon. > “Your actions to raise the prices of our books, place banners touting books that ‘are similar but lower in price’ and saying that our books will ship in 3-5 weeks when they are in stock is not only a disgusting negotiation practice, but it has made me tell my readers to shop elsewhere — and they are and will,” she wrote. This is a minor point, but for what it's worth, it appears that Amazon is saying that the books are "unavailable", not "out of stock", from the screenshot. Amazon does sometimes say that items are "out of stock" instead of "unavailable", so it's not that they're trying to imply any reason for the lack of availability - they're just saying that they are not available and not specifying the reason. [0] This is mostly rhetorical - I can understand why she may not want to lower her price - but that's the way supply and demand works in a supply chain (ie, when you're not selling direct-to-consumer). [1] As is Amazon, for that matter! She always has the option of selling the e-books herself, if she decides that that's a worthwhile endeavor.