Inside Amazon's Battle With Hachette
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In the short run, authors and readers are the innocent bystanders in this war. Hachette authors aren’t reaping the rewards of their work as much as they could during this period and readers who want books like Gladwell’s Outliers right now aren’t getting them in a timely fashion — if they continue to buy through Amazon, that is.
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In the short run, authors and readers are the innocent bystanders in this war.
Why? What's stopping readers from buying elsewhere; or for that matter, reading something else?
Of course this always goes back to authors and publishers having a captive customer base; a base that hasn't yet grasped the fact that there's no such thing as a must read. Once readers realize that and start seeking alternatives to hard-to-get or overpriced books, then all this silliness will stop. We'll see ample supplies with reasonable pricing.
Until then, readers only have themselves to blame.