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Originally Posted by John Carroll
I don't begrudge anyone a profit, especially if they provide a service. I will say that I like the fact that I can set my price and have it honored. I think I'd be okay with retailers setting different prices and competing with my books as long as I received the same price for each sale.
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This is a good place to start. Sounds perfectly reasonable that as long as you get to determine the money that comes to you -- you're perfectly fine with a retailer putting your books on sale -- maybe even choosing to use your book as a loss leader by loosing money on selling your book in order for the retailer to gain in some other way.
Ok. So we have a principle here -- you do care about what the retailer does IF it impacts your own income.
Well, now lets extend your interest to not only your books, but all the books that a large publisher is concerned about. If you have a retailer with huge marketshare -- setting a price point so low that you KNOW if such pricing is allowed to stand -- then your business will be hurt financially even while the retailer pays your wholesale price.
BING0 -- now you know why the "Agency 5" stood up for themselves against Amazon. It is the SAME self preservation that an individual author wishes to exercise.
Lee