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Originally Posted by leebase
So perhaps they just open up their alternate site with the lower "pay no middleman here" prices.
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How would they be able to offer lower prices on an alternate site? Surely they'd have to conform to their own Agency Model pricing.
If Amazon and the alternate publisher site existed at the same time, no court in the country would allow publishers to sell their own books for a cheaper price on their own site all the while forcing another company to sell them at a higher price.
No other alternate site is going to be able to offer the convenience that Amazon does: they could deliver content directly to people's Kindles via Wifi through the Kindle's email address, but not 3G--and they're going to be forced to deliver it DRM free (unless Amazon hands over their proprietary mobi DRM for a "pretty please?")... can you see any publishers doing that?
No, publishers would have to cut Amazon out entirely... instantly. Which would basically cut out the entire Kindle user base. Nobody's going to take a gamble like that.