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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
This article only hints at it vaguely:
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Vaguely being the key aspect.
They say amazon wants "bigger discounts" but they never say openly from what baseline.
Is it the traditional 45-50% publishers have given to big retaikers for decades now in the wholesale model?
Or is it from the Apple-introduced 30% no-discount agency terms?
Lies, damn lies, and statistics all depend on obscuring facts and hiding baselines.
So yeah, Amazon might be asking for "bigger discounts" than the agency straightjacket allocates to them but not bigger discounts than they used to get pre-agency. And since agency was introduced via an illegal conspiracy, they might not be willing to agree to it meekly a second time. Not without compensation.
Without a clear reference point, "bigger discounts", "more fees", "service charges" by themselves are just inflammatory (but meaningless) phrases.
Of course, thanks to the blabbermouths at Hachette and Lagardere we do know it is the lower 30% number that is the baseline.
It's all about Agency.
Again.