Quote:
Originally Posted by jgaiser
Ok. So, Amazon should honor an expired contract? Why? You're going to have to provide something better than soundbites. The contract between Amazon and Hachette has expired. They cannot come to terms. There is no longer a legal relationship between the two. And you believe that Amazon should continue to provide income to the publisher. Is that your stance?
|
I am very sorry that all my clarifications failed to clarify. I am extremely exasperated that Hachette has been going on and on about how Amazon is mistreating it, when the contract has expired and Hachette failed to respond to Amazon's offer to begin negotiation months before the expiration.
Of course, it is only Amazon's assertion that it has been reaching out, but it is credible.
And most of Hachette's complaints have been, by proxy, but I think enough of them have direct.
For the record, it is a fact that when there is no contract, doing nothing, or anything, fulfills all the requirements of that contract, since there are no requirements because a contract that does not exist has no requirements.
I know that sarcasm risks misunderstanding, but there was absolutely no irony and the statement was strictly true, so I expected the meaning to come through even if the joke did not.