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Originally Posted by TCSimpson
Amazon made a new offer to Hachette.
http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/8/588...ut-ebook-sales
They already denied it.
http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadow...-book-revenue/
What is interesting is what Amazon themselves had to say about the negotiations.
"Our first choice would be to resolve a dispute like this through discussion only. We tried that already. We reached out to Hachette for the first time to discuss terms at the beginning of January for our contract which terminated in March. We heard nothing from them for three full months. We extended the contract into April under existing terms. Still nothing. In fact we got no conversation at all from Hachette until we started reducing our on-hand print inventory and reducing the discounts we offer customers off their list prices. Even since then, weeks have gone by while we waited for them to get back to us. After our last proposal to them on June 5th, they waited a week to respond at all, promising a counteroffer the following week. We are still waiting a month later." |
That was a good move by Amazon. It makes hot air out of the Hachette author's public complaints about Amazon hurting them in the negotiations. Now it's time for the spinmeisters to begin discrediting it as an obvious media ploy. (It is an obvious media ploy but it works to discredit the author's obvious media ploy.)