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Old 05-21-2012, 05:39 PM   #82
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That's some list of straw men you have there. What does the Author's Guild have to do with any of that?
Author's guild, nothing specifically. However, their support doesn't seem to be for "authors" but for "authors who do business the way we like it." Where's the author's guild support for authors getting 2.4% of list price royalties from Harlequin? Where's their support for authors not willing to sign with any of the rights-grabbing large publishers?

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Scott Turow's "crime" on this forum is that hesides with the publishers in seeing Amazon regain monopsonistic control of ebook market as a threat. He is right to do so, IMO. With Amazon in control, everyone upstream of Amazon will have to negotiate with a buyer of their product that can say, "Either you sell to me on my terms or you get locked out of 80-90 per cent of the market."
Yes... so where's the support for other stores, rather than support for the suppliers? If publishers don't like Amazon's approach to business, they can support other stores whose approaches they do like.

I don't see how "single pricing method" translates to "support for diversity in the marketplace."

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IMO, Scott Thurow (who is not merely the head of the Author's Guild but an attorney), knows a lot more about the cold , hard reality of business negotiations than folks here are so enamored of the wonderful possibilities of THE INTERNETT!!
Turow said that "Amazon was using e-book discounting to destroy bookselling" -- by which he apparently meant "selling physical books," because the number of books being sold at all has skyrocketed since Amazon got into the ebook game. Like Eisler, I'm fascinated at how Amazon can "destroy" bookselling by selling millions of books.

Turow seems to think that Amazon--a store, which sells books--is somehow more dangerous to authors than the publishers who threaten, lie to, and play creative accounting games to scam authors out of royalties.
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