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Originally Posted by 6charlong
Here's an interesting article that reminds us how the publishers did the same sort of thing in 1934 with pBooks--and got the same response from the government back then--when the Great Depression squeezed both the publishers and the book buying public.
http://www.npr.org/2012/04/12/150492...all-over-again |
If you read the article, the Government actually supported the publishers against "Macy's predatory pricing," Macy's ended up returning 36,000 copies and the publisher got to set the price... and
Gone with the Wind continued to be a bestseller... and the prices stayed even after the original legislation was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court...