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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
I would have thought all 3 of those writers would have enough control over their publishers to have their books removed from Amazon if they really wanted to.
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They also get paid massive royalties and they are not about to give up 40-50% of their income in futile gestures.
Remember, they all get better than average royalties/payments, and Amazon doesn't just provide the channel for a third of BPH sales, they are also the most *profitable* channel by a lot so something like half of BPH net profits (and name author royalties) come via Amazon.
For all the bile swilling around, that is Amazon's trump card: Hachette needs them but they don't *need* a Hachette contract. They don't have to agree to no-discount Agency. And Hachette won't agree to anything else, apparently. Hence the deadlock.