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Old 06-10-2012, 11:04 AM   #124
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
If the terms say eBooks cannot be sold at a loss, then the sellers would have to give up the records of the eBook sales in order to satisfy this. That includes Amazon.
The sellers aren't subject to the lawsuit. They aren't required to comply with the results of the ruling. It's possible that the publishers won't legally be *allowed* to sell at a vendor who won't give them that data--which means Amazon (and the other vendors) would have easy leverage to screw them over at will.

There's a big difference between "sellers are required to hand over that data because of a DOJ settlement," which is not the situation, and "future contracts between seller & publisher will include a section about data the seller is required to hand over"--which is possible, but gives Amazon leverage that the publishers don't want.

It's possible that the sales statements Amazon already hands over includes that data as a matter of course, in which case, publishers will have an easy time of it. However, again, there's a difference between "this data has always been available" and "this data will always be available in the future." A shift in Amazon's accounting or reporting software could change that.
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