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Originally Posted by VicLavigne
Should not be a surprise. Amazon is trying to lock authors into exclusive contracts for Kindle books, why shouldn't B&N refuse to carry Amazon published books?
Vic
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Not a surprise, no, but it does seem silly from my perspective of a consumer of ebooks and paper books from both companies.
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Our decision is based on Amazon’s continued push for exclusivity with publishers, agents and the authors they represent. These exclusives have prohibited us from offering certain eBooks to our customers. Their actions have undermined the industry as a whole and have prevented millions of customers from having access to content.
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While I get their reasoning, it still works out to "Amazon caused our customers to have fewer choices so we're also going to give our customers fewer choices to get back at Amazon." Except it won't get back at Amazon because those customers have the choice to buy these books elsewhere like, say, Amazon.
The people most likely looking to buy these books probably haven't made the switch to ebooks, so they aren't going to give a rat's patootie that this is over an ebook war.