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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
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.
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Yes, and it also highlights the disingenuous "protect the bookstores" argument from the Authors Guild. If you want to protect independent bookstores, then apply the agency pricing model to your printed books. If everybody has to sell at the same price, then the local store that is currently being walloped by Costco and Walmart, far more so than by Amazon, would have a fighting chance. Of course, that would drastically impact sales, and earnings for authors, but it would protect all those bookstores those all too altruistic autors want to save.
