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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Wait, you mean that Amazon now wants to push the cost of all those discounts they offer customers on best sellers down to the publishers rather than eat them? Hum, that doesn't match the narrative that was being pushed by those decrying the evil publishers a few months ago. This is how government intervention tends to distort the market in rather predictable ways.
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The operative word is share. Amazon wants the publishers to share the costs of the markdowns. If that's objectionable to the publishers, then all they have to do is say no. It's called negotiating.