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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
To pretend that the outcome and future repercussions of this ongoing investigation are already a given is what I find unrealistic. Just because the naysayers make more sense to you, doesn't mean the naysayers make more sense. Perhaps this will provide the impetus for BPH to finally look inward at things they may need to do instead of only focusing on what's being done to them. Maybe it's a watershed moment.
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Although no one can predict the future with certainty, you can certainly make foreasts based onn past experience. I don't know for sure that the sun will rise tomorrow, but that's the way to bet. The business press and the stock market universally predict that this is bad news for BN , eg.
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Industry executives and Wall Street analysts say a return to aggressive discounting of best-selling e-books by Amazon could undermine rival Barnes & Noble, which in the past couple of years has taken an estimated 27% of the e-book market through its Nook digital book store.
Just as importantly, Barnes & Noble sold most of those titles profitably, since it didn't have to worry about having to match discounted books that might otherwise have been sold at a loss.
"This is a huge problem for Barnes & Noble," said Forrester analyst James McQuivey. "Amazon is building a tremendous customer relationship that they can monetize across many categories of goods, not just books. Even if they decide to take a hit on e-books, they can find other places to make up that margin. Barnes & Noble doesn't have that same luxury."
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Every analyst thinks of this as a disaster for publishers and authors, who will just make less in the new regime. All this airy talk of "new business models" , "best practices", etc. are just gauzy attempts to disguise the fact that publishers and authors are gonna lose out. I think its better if folks who are happy about the DOJ action just own that upfront, and then go on from there.