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Originally Posted by anamardoll
I can see the concern: If Amazon can "buy up" all the good authors as both publisher AND distributor, it's a potential trust issue, I think. But it'll have to be worked out in the courts. Who knows? Maybe we'll get an Amazon Publisher and Amazon Distributor bust-up like the Bells.
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But is it a problem if the publishers "buy up" all the good authors and then pay what they want, and charge whatever outlandish price they want. And furthermore require these authors "by contract" to only deal with these publishers and to write what the publishers want, and to require the book sellers to primarily promote these authors and publisher's works. The other authors are found in the back along with the comics and science fiction.
My word! That is awful.
Wait, I believe in the past that has happened.
Another example is when the movie studios signed the very young actors and actresses and then by contract could renew their services every 7 years and these people didn't work if they didn't sign. The courts threw that out as "involuntary servitude."
And these were artists! Who would have thought!