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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I can see Amazon being a publisher not in Amazon's favor. I can see that if the BPHs want to stop selling to Amazon, all they have to do is claim that since Amazon is a publisher, that they are the competition and they don't sell to the competition. I think they could get away with that pretty easily.
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They don't have to sell to Amazon. They could pull their books from Amazon entirely with no legal repercussions. They *want* to sell at Amazon... they want Amazon's publicity engine and sales rankings and the convenience of not having to stock bookstores. They just don't want Amazon to influence the customers' ideas of how books work and what they're worth.
There's some metaphor about cake that belongs here. I'm sure it's one of these:
1) The cake is a lie.
2) Cake or death?
3) They want to have their cake and eat it too.
This is why BPH's statements about how they "had to do
something to stop Amazon" fall flat. They *had* something they could do... stop selling through Amazon. Saying that Amazon was "destroying books" by selling so many of them that there were no other viable markets is a fascinatingly convoluted statement.