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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
We did?!? Seems to me like lots of MR readers would've eviscerated you for saying as much in late 2009. 
To be more specific, there was a great deal of concern over Amazon's attempts to -- wait for it -- control the market and reveal its anti-competitive streak. People were actually lauding Sony -- Sony!!! -- as a potential savior of the freedom of the ebook market. (You know you're really up a creek when you're hoping that Sony will protect your digital rights....)
Publishers were also terrified that their margins were going to go down the tubes, with authors on one hand ramping up to demand higher royalties while retailers (especially Amazon) was likely to demand lower wholesale prices. |
Erm, most people LOVED Amazon's pricing. A very few were afraid that Amazon may jack up prices once they had a monopoly, but most loved what Amazon was doing. The pricing boycotts that you linked to so thoroughly prove that.
Now, what people were often angry about was Amazon's walled garden (gee, where have we heard about that recently?).