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Originally Posted by jgaiser
So much complaining... So few facts...
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Spend a half hour on
www.amazon.com, looking at Hachette products by the prominent author of your choice, jotting down notes, and comparing to works by a comparable author of another publisher (Big 5, or Thomas & Mercer), and to kobo.com. Then, if you have time, look for the same books at search.overdrive.com. You will come out with loads of facts. The great thing about a thread like this is that everyone can be their own news reporter.
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Originally Posted by tompe
Actually they did not sell the ebook but seemed to change there mind after complaints.
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Could be. But Amazon is still selling many Hachette paperbacks at list price. Wouldn't they also get complaints about that?
Reading news stories and looking at
www.amazon.com pricing, one sees that Amazon is still often pricing in a way that discourages Hachette purchases.
Amazon is a data-driven company. If their metrics show people getting to Hachette pages and promptly going off the reservation, adjustments are being made. If metrics show customers looking at a Hachette book and then making another Amazon purchase, the unusual price or shipment policy stays.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I fear this will have a detrimental effect on the overall quality of yogurt.
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You aren't serious here, but maybe you should be.
To my taste buds, store-brand yogurt is fine. Since I am fairly confident that yogurt quality will remain acceptable, my interests there boil down to freshness and price. So if I read that WalMart put the squeeze on Yoplait, making unusual stocking and pricing decision that drove business to other brands, I wouldn't post about it negatively. It would be a shame when Yoplait employees lose their jobs. But there still are people in my country who go hungry, so cheaper yogurt would be, on balance, a moral good.
However, books are not yogurt.
Even though Hachette isn't my favorite brand of book, I prefer it to the Amazon Publishing brand, and I think I also would prefer today's Hachette to some future Amazonized Hachette that is less able to pay advances and editors.