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Originally Posted by rhadin
Isn't the ultimate point that Amazon "promised" book buyers large discounts all the time as it campaigned to get your business and deny it to the indie bookstores and B&N and is now breaking faith with that "promise" as it gives in to pressure from shareholders to provide higher quarterly profits and returns?
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Do you have any PROOF of this statement?
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
My answer is simple: at no point am I willing to inconvenience myself (or spend more money) to "support" competition. I'm the consumer; that's not my job. It's up to the competing businesses to entice me to be a patron. If they (the business) need to rely on assistance from their customers--in the form of being willing to spend even slightly more money than they have to (for no added service), or going out of their way a little more than they might have to--then they're already out of business... they just haven't accepted it yet.
The only exemption to my own philosophy would be if I personally knew the proprietor of a business. But even in that instance, my altruism only goes so far: meaning I'm only willing to help ... not perform CPR on a dying business model at the expense of my own financial common-sense.
Bottom line is this: I feel no loyalty|sympathy|obligation to businesses (or industries). Especially those businesses who were free to make the same decisions--to recognize the same future business potential--that Amazon did long ago. I'm not going to reward anyone for getting beat at their own game.
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THANK YOU! I didn't realize that there were SO many altruistic people in the world who's main concern was to worry about all businesses staying in business no matter how much money they have to spend to insure that that happens!
I am not making purchases to keep businesses going. I am making purchases of the things I want and need at the best prices that I can get them for. I make purchases based on what
I consider is a good value to me. If I think it is worth a higher price then I will pay it, if not I won't.
There will always be a new business to pop up to fill in the gaps, that's business. Businesses operate to make a profit usually by selling OVERPRICED goods to rip off customers.
B&N purchased Fictionwise for the sole purpose of eliminating their competition and they succeeded, now they themselves are in the same boat. Cry me a river, they are getting exactly what they deserve!
Aside from a lot of speculation, NOBODY has yet proven that Amazon is/has broken any laws. When it does then you will have something to whine about.
The book industry is changing thanks to the invention of ereaders/ebooks. Publishers & big bookstores are refusing to accept the new reality. So if they die they have no one to blame but themselves.
If the whiner of an author wanted to control the price of his book he should have self published it. But he wanted the "prestige" of having a publisher thereby giving away his rights to his own work. Too bad, so sad live and learn.