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Originally Posted by Barcey
You can compare the largest Hachette author's income to the income of Hachette and ask the same question.
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Yes, you could compare authors' incomes to Hachette's profits (or the income of its highest-paid author to that of its highest-paid employee -- I'm not sure which thing you mean).
I'm not certain what point you're trying to make, since that's a different relationship and I don't think anyone's attempting to vilify Amazon. The idea is not that Hachette is good and Amazon bad. And since Apple isn't mentioned at all in the article, I'm hoping that a discussion about specific terms won't have to come down to yet another brand loyalty tussle.
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Originally Posted by Barcey
Companies make unreasonable demands in contract negotiations. It's being portrayed as only Amazon making unreasonable demands and I don't believe that.
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The article is about whether specific demands made by Amazon could have an adverse effect on the publishing industry. When articles about publishers' demands appear -- and past history indicates they will -- we'll be talking about the specifics of those demands.
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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
There are enough contractual issues floating around in this question that I might use it to write my next final exam. . . . (Might be nice for brick and mortars though who DO have the nice copy in stock.)
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Thanks for the intriguing questions and perspective.
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Originally Posted by fjtorres
As a regular Cringely reader, I don't recall any of the Cringely writers publishing any proprietary information about ongoing negotiations. IDG has standards and they depended on ads from those very companies.
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I haven't been able to find an advertisers list for
The Guardian or
The Observer, but I wouldn't be surprised if it included Amazon. Besides, haven't GuardianFilms and other companies under the GMG Guardian Media Group umbrella relied partly on Amazon for distribution?
Also: The idea that IDG "has standards" and, by implication, that Guardian News & Media does not seems a Hank uncharitable.