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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
Amazon offered very low prices on a *tiny* percentage of their e-book sales. (NY Times bestsellers). This isn't predatory pricing, it's not illegal, and it's no different from what grocery stores do every week.
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It is different than what groceries do. It was the entire NYT's Best Seller's list, every day. That they have a million public domain books, and hundreds of thousands of low volume titles -- does nothing to mitigate that they were using predatory pricing on the most in demand, high volume books.
Look -- publisher's didn't go to war with Amazon for nothing. Look also at folks' response. If it wasn't that many books being subsidized, then there'd have been little complaining.
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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
I mean, Baen *gives away* books. Are they engaged in predatory pricing? Or something worse,since there's no pricing at all.  |
Baen isn't giving away someone ELSE's products. They aren't buying Tor books and then giving them away for free.
I know....people love the free tit to suckle on. It's disturbing when someone stops paying for your suckle.
Lee