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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
I still haven't seen a single article ask whether Amazon has the right to sell pre-orders without a contract in place. And saying that Amazon is raising the prices of certain books to list price...well, hey, nothing stopping Hachette from lowing the price to make them competitive.
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It would actually be illegal in the UK for the manufacturer to set the price of the product. A retailer has the legal right to sell the product for any price they wish to, whether that be higher or lower than the manufacturer's recommended retail price. I don't know if US law differs in this regard.
I know at one time the publishers tried to get around this by claiming that Amazon were acting as their agent, rather than as a retailer (an agent DOESN'T have the right to change the price), but wasn't this ruled to be invalid as a part of the "agency pricing" court case?