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Originally Posted by leebase
No one saw harm in hard backs going for $25
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Harm? No. But most people I know didn't pay that either. There are plenty of places to get a hardcover book for a lot less than cover price and there always have been. Why did the publishers not complain about that? They've been fine with street prices on hardcovers that are sometimes more than half of cover price but then bitch when the same model was applied to the digital version.
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How powerful did amazon have to be that every single one of the largest 6 publishers all HATED Amazons pricing of the publisher's product but not a single one of the could do anything about it?
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They could have stopped selling through Amazon at anytime. They could have even sold Kindle versions if they'd drop the DRM. They all had ebook stores in the past so that infrastructure was in place. It would have shaken things up for a while, but people would have adapted.