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Originally Posted by TechnoCat
What's with the antagonism towards Amazon? They have many thousands of free ebooks, and tens of thousands of commercial ones. Ten years ago there wasn't a single one of you who would go into Borders, Crown, Barnes & Noble, etc. looking for books and because you couldn't find one specific line of books, decided the store was evil. They only carry a limited number... - What is being pushed/advertised heavily by the publisher (free promotion)
- What did they get a big buy on?
- What do they have an exclusive to?
- What is selling? Which excludes book 1 (or possibly book 3 even) of that series you're reading)
Out of a smallish selection of books, you come away with 3 or more anyhow, even if that one you always look for still isn't there.
So now IPG is not giving Amazon terms they want... but they feel entitled to be sold by Amazon? How much of that back-catalog is carried in-print at your neighboorhood bricks-and-mortar store? Or in the shlock-section of your grocery?
Amazon does not have a monopoly on paper book sales. They don't have a monopoly on ebook devices, or on ebook sales to other devices. B&N protects the Nook market as Amazon protects the Kindle market. And yet it's Amazon the ire is towards? I don't get it. |
Like the Don said.
"It's business, nothing personal."