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"Retailers will promote and market books, but we will control the price for the book."
And, um, they expect retailers to promote and market them just as enthusiastically as they do for books they receive 50% of? They expect their books to somehow be included in site-wide promotions, when retailers can't alter the price?
He's obviously never sold goods on consignment before.
"And many of our decisions on list prices were driven more by our Amazon relationship than by our relationship with consumers."
Obviously. So... he believes that Amazon, not consumers, will decide what sells and what doesn't, so it's more important to establish a solid business arrangement with Amazon than to work for happy consumers.
Shall we open a betting pool for year-and-quarter when indie ebooks outsell mainstream publishers' ebook sales?
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