Don't you think the agency model pricing rigidities will mean that authors will be given the same conditions by any of the Cartel Five "competitors"? What's the incentive to change then? If the Big 5 will offer authors the same conditions anywhere, and the small publishers will give you worse ones, authors will choose the Big 5.
Last edited by Logseman; 08-19-2010 at 05:02 AM.
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