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Originally Posted by shalym
Exactly, Harry.
Barcey, do you know of a case where Amazon is actually refusing to sell any books because they are published by Hachette?
Shari
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Nope but the Bloomberg link indicates they're showing out of stock.
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Hachette hasn’t reached a deal with Amazon, and about 5,000 of the publisher’s titles continue to show out-of-stock messages, Cottrell said.
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I was purely speculating that Hachette was using the JK Rowlings book as their primary bargaining chip and they'd timed the release to be after the existing Amazon contract expired. It would be the logical thing for Hachette to do since it's probably their biggest book of the year and they control the release date. Also in the investor briefing they were confident this would be resolved in a couple weeks and that seemed to align with JK's book release.