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Originally Posted by leebase
The publishers were responding to a rogue client, Amazon, who was selling the entire best seller's list at a loss in order to dominate the market. It was not in the publisher's best interest for this to continue.
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What makes you think that Amazon was selling at a loss? Amazon is already established in functioning online. They are optimized for this. If they get the books 50% off from the publisher and sell them 30% off, they have 20% of the price to cover expenses and make a profit. Plus, the more ebooks they sell, the more kindles they sell.
And why would the publishers have a problem with that? If they really didn't want to work with Amazon anymore, they could just stop using Amazon as a retailer.