Thread: Pressure Mounting for Judge Cote to Reject E-Book Settlement
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Old 06-27-2012, 07:28 AM   #70
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
At that point Penguin "suggested" B&N (the biggest pbook retailer still) ought to stop promoting RH books until they joined the price fix.
Is that a joke?

Random House is the largest publisher in the US; at the time of the switch -- early 2011 -- B&N was losing sales, closing stores, and selling puppets just to stay afloat. B&N was in no position to put pressure on RH.


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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Amazon caved when Penguin and co told them *they* were also moving to price-fixing and they'd better be ready to do without all the conspiracy's titles.
No, Amazon caved because of an enormous backlash against their crude and heavy-handed actions. It was Amazon, not Macmillan, who was blamed for pulling the books, and the strategy backfired.
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