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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Inside Amazon's Battle With Hachette
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.
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So, Amazon is using their near monopoly position to harm consumers? Isn't that the definition of anti-trust violation?
Some readers will read whatever is cheap or available and don't really care about authors, just like some TV views turn on the TV and watch whatever is on, rather than have a favorite program. However, I suspect that is not the sort of consumer that companies really go after.