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The objectors realize that once the settlement is approved, the books from the 3 settling publishers (and who knows how many others) will be candidates for discounting while their price-fixed ones won't. So dragging the trial out as they prefer would cost them sales and market share.
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The settling publishers definitely helped themselves-unless Amazon says, " We aren't willing to eat the cost of discounting any more. So sell us your books at $9.99 or lose 60-70 per cent of sales".
Will Amazon do that? Dunno. If they do, then the settling publishers-and the authors they represent-are screwed with no lubricant. They may get market share-but that means nothing if they get less money.