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Originally Posted by MovieBird

Too bad. Amazon isn't a charity. They're not here to prop up anybody's business model but their own. They're also not here to be my friend, but they just happen to be an awesome experience with rock bottom prices for the customer. Too bad I'm too curmudgeonly to lease ebooks from them.





I don't think I've ever read anything funnier on this forum. The publishers are public businesses. They are beholden to their shareholders to turn a profit, as large a profit as they can. They only 'think' about their authors and staff at the bare minimum required to make a profit. Like every other public corporation out there.

Glad I amused you. The point is Amazon acted in their self interest and the interests of her shareholders , and the publishers acted in the interests of their shareholders, employees and authors. Its not in their interests to allow Amazon to get to a position where they can dictate prices to the publishers ( and thus less income to their authors).