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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Why would they?
They milked their highly-publicized fight with MacMillan for a ton of consumer good will....
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It lasted about 3 days, Amazon got blamed for pulling the books, and really no one outside the industry cares. They definitely lost that round.
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Originally Posted by fjtorres
they constantly remind buyers whose fault it is when some ebooks are ridiculously priced
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And yet, they don't say "this price was set by Amazon."
By the way, I've seen quite a few non-agency priced books that are significantly more expensive than Amazon's $10 target price.
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Originally Posted by fjtorres
They judo'ed the Price Fix Scam right back at the publishers by offering the same 70-30 split to KDP publishers, thereby forcing the publishers to explain to their authors why 17% royalties with them are better than 60-70% with Amazon
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That's a really weird reading of the situation.
Amazon has always offered slightly better royalty rates for self-publishers. However, they also don't offer advances, they don't pay for editors, they don't provide marketing, and so forth.
Also, Amazon offers self-publishers full control over pricing -- yet somehow it's wrong when a non-self-publisher does the same thing? Hmmm
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Originally Posted by fjtorres
They factored the extra Price-Fix revenue into Kindle hardware pricing which allowed them (and B&N, for that matter) to squeeze the hardware-only reader vendors off the market.
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They were squeezing those guys by proprietary formatting combined with better availability, long before Kindles were cheap.
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Remember, some of the lawsuits over the Price Fix name Amazon and B&N as defendants because the scam has been very good to them.
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No, they're targeting them because they accuse Apple and Amazon of collaborating with the publishers to fix prices, by adopting agency pricing.
Amazon didn't sue the publishers first because:
• It's a bit stupid to sue the people who provide the content you're selling
• They can get a leg up in other ways, such as striking a deal with the occasional author here, and backlist title there
• They almost certainly didn't want to reveal the kind of info that a lawsuit like that would require (e.g. sales and pricing figures)