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Originally Posted by J. Strnad
I'm not sure any of the Big Six have!
Amazon did an end run around them by treating each "borrow" as a sale, paying them for it as if Amazon had purchased the book and gifted it to a Prime member. The publishers didn't agree that this was legal and protested.
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That does sound directly against the Agency model, which says no discounting of books. Amazon is setting a different price on the books (free) and paying the wholesale rate, which the publishers have successfully prevented in many other instances. If there are any Big Six books on the list, I predict they won't be there for long.
So the question is: Can a subscription model work and have value to consumers, with none of the major publishers involved?
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