![]() ![]() ![]() One of the questions likely to be asked by SCIBA is why the Festival was offering a free Kindle as a promotional giveaway over the weekend. "We are thrilled that now they are giving consumers the choice of IndieBound." Palacios, owner of Once Upon a Time in Montrose, said she would be calling representatives at the Times to thank them and to bring up a few other issues SCIBA would like to address. "I think the world has let know that there might have been a little bit of an issue with what they did," said Maureen Palacios, president of the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association. "The links will officially be live within a couple of days." ![]() "Our creative team was testing the site," confirmed Hillary Manning, director of communications for the Los Angeles Times. ![]() Now, a few days after the brouhaha started, the LATFOB has begun the process of adding IndieBound buy buttons next to each featured author's name. Last week the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books sparked the ire of independent booksellers, publisher participants and quite a number of book consumers who took to social media to air their complaints about the festival becoming an Amazon affiliate. ![]()
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