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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
End result.
In the meantime, Amazon and Hachette are negotiating and consumers still have access to Hachette titles. Life goes on.
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Nope, it's not the end result. The end result could be many different things. In negotiations between two equals, typically both sides give something and get something. What that is depends on what's important to each party.
For example, while Apple initial preferred set price points (much like the music prices), they were willing to give the publishers agency pricing in return for a most favored nation clause. With the music prices, Apple preferred one set price per song (.99) however, they eventually negotiated a tiered price structure since it was important to the music companies to charge more for popular artists. These negotiations went on over the space of several years and eventually succeeded because the government did not interfere. All parties eventually got something that worked for them.
We may see something like agency pricing for the first six months and then Amazon can price it to whatever they like. We may see some sort of tiered pricing scheme where top tiered authors have a set minimum price and other books can be sold at a discount. There are all sorts of possibilities.