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Old 06-27-2014, 02:49 AM   #44
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Originally Posted by Barcey View Post
You can compare the largest Hachette author's income to the income of Hachette and ask the same question.
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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Companies make unreasonable demands in contract negotiations. It's being portrayed as only Amazon making unreasonable demands and I don't believe that.
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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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.)
Thanks for the intriguing questions and perspective.

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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.
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.

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