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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Publishers had an easy way to stop Amazon from getting market control: Stop selling to Amazon. Or give other ebook stores--like Fictionwise, BoB, Diesel, AllRomanceEbooks--good enough terms to let them solidly compete, instead of picking a method that drove smaller stores out of business in the aftermath of the new pricing scheme.
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Exactly how would that have worked? Alternative one would probably not have been acceptable relative to their relation with their authors. And alternative two would not have worked since Amazon just would have demanded better terms than the competition.