Today is one of those bad news days. Amazon strikes again and captures another internet bookseller and thus spread their tentacles through internet bookselling even further.

Hachette Livre are in the midst of a stand-off with Amazon over discounts and as they rank the following amongst their imprints, we should be worried: Headline Publishing Group, Hodder & Stoughton, John Murray, Orion Publishing Group, Octopus Publishing Group, Little, Brown Book Group, Hodder Education Group, and Chambers Harrap.

Is it now time for smaller publishing groups like ours to take a stand? I wonder what difference it would make to Amazon (if any), if all Inpress publishers refused to supply Amazon with any of their titles. Inpress members probably have about 3,000 titles still in print - not all of which are shown on this website - so we'd hardly be a worthwhile opponent if it were pistols at dawn or Gunfights at the O K Corral.

The level of discounts demanded from suppliers and the equally heavy discounting of titles on their site, in my view, devalues totally the effort that the author, designer, editor and publisher have put in to produce the book in the first place. There's nothing worse than agonising for hours over your choice of a book as a present for a loved one and then later discovering that it's been discounted to the point where it's almost worthless. What does that say about my choice of present for someone I care about? I hardly dare to think.

Should all UK publishers band together and refuse to supply Amazon? Self-interest I fear, will be the winner.