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Originally Posted by crossi
"pulled the plug" on their books? Idiots. No distributor can sell a product without a contract to do so. If the terms of the contract can't be agreed on no sales can possibly take place. Legally anyway. If Amazon had continued to sell their products it would have opened them to a major lawsuit about their illegal behavior.
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Not only lawsuits. Selling without a contract is a criminal offense in the US.
(Interesting that they use Walmart as an example. Walmart does exactly the same thing to their vendors - you start off with a reasonable deal, become dependent on them for the majority of your business, and every year you are required to reduce your price to them. Once you've expanded your production to accomodate the increased business, you either reduce your costs - and the quality of the goods you're making - or you go under. Very similiar business practice.)
Amazon is pretty slimy, yeah. But these people are idiots. Especially predicting the end of intellectual freedom over 100 titles. Drama queens.