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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
These kind of maneuvers aren't an option for big pubs. As I mentioned above, Amazon would have a field day blaming the publishers for denying Amazon customers access to their books, and publishers would lose sales. It'd be an unmitigated disaster.
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So, all their arguments about "breaking monopolies", "no quality literature without the BPH", "protect your favourite author's income", "the future of a civilized society", etc. are worthless? Either that or they don't have the courage of their convictions (or balls, as stonetools puts it) to make their case.
Personally I think they recognize their arguments have little merit or acceptance, so it's probably a sensible decision. Still it would be nice to see one of them have the balls to stop sneaking around in the dark and actually come out in the open with what they're trying to force on the reading public.