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(giggles)
I love that somehow or another, Goliath has suddenly become David. Maybe the Publishers would be in a better position today if they had done more to support independent bookstores when Barnes and Nobles and Borders were happily taking out the independent bookstores.
So now we are all suppose to love and support Barnes and Noble in order to protect the Publishers who fear Amazon. Amazon who is doing exactly what Barnes and Noble did not too long ago. Barnes and Nobles was able to undermine independent bookstores by lowering the cost of the paper book in a way that the independent bookstore could not afford to do. It was ok for Barnes and Noble, and Borders, to do this in the mind of the Publisher because more people were buying books and the Publishers were getting paid based on the full price of the book.
Amazon does the same thing with E-Books and it is a big, bad evil company that threatens the livelihood of publishers.
Bullpucky.
The Publishers need to learn a lesson from the music industry and the movie industry. There is a way to make all of this work. They just have to suck it up and change their out dated business practices.
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