Thread: Amazon vs Hachette
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Old 06-02-2014, 10:35 AM   #246
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Originally Posted by Alfy View Post
I would absolutely agree that Amazon has a history of being a very aggressive company. However, 3 articles and one opinion piece in one national newspaper in 7 days time, all completely one-sided, all ignoring any past "bad behavior" from publishing companies, glossing over their own strong-arm tactics and their awful business model, never making any attempt at showing the other side of the story, never once mentioning what publishers want when it comes to pricing of ebooks and where the consumers' interest might lie, yes, that's what I like to call propaganda, fully knowing I'm abusing the term for effect.

I am not a "fan" of Amazon, far from it. But the media outrage at what is happening now between Amazon and Hachette is just a bad joke. Being a subscriber, I'm expecting the NYT to be a newspaper, not a mouth piece for the BPH. Silly, isn't it?
What awful business model? You mean the only one that up to now have worked in the sense that it produces high quality books?
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