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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I think you missed the point. The author never claimed that market forces don't apply to Diet Coke. But rather, that those market forces (that definitely do apply) aren't going to change the product itself. While I may not agree that the content and quality of books themselves may suffer as a result of this battle, I find the analogy quite apt. The market forces in this instance do have the potential to change the quality and the content of the product itself. Whether or not they will is another story. The big point is that this isn't simply a two-sided battle between retailer and supplier (as I was once willing to see it myself).
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No, I did get that point, I just tend to disagree with it, eventually if you push a manufacturer hard enough on price, after they've cut everything else back to the bare minimums, they are going to have to cut the quality. Whether it's Diet Coke or books or widgets. I found it to be a very poor and ill thought out analogy.
I think the big thing to take away from this whole fight is wondering why the authors continue to do business with the Big 5 PH at all? It seems to me that they have done little to help authors and certainly quite a bit to make them worse off.