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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Good grief! The fact is, books aren't different and special. They're either a series of facts or another form of entertainment. A book = a movie = a song = a photo = a painting = a sculpture = a garden hoe . . . .
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I'm torn on how to respond to this.
Three mutually exclusive possibilities are:
-- Most, maybe all, fiction, you are correct about. But not other books. Here are two quite different recent Hachette titles that I think make for a more informed citizentry (even though I've only read the first):
http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/tit...9780316219280/
http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/tit...9781478983705/
-- No, reading is better than other forms of entertainment. Children who grow up as readers get better jobs, and reading in adulthood exercises the brain and prevents its deterioration:
http://books.google.com/books?id=NlY...0brain&f=false
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=117588
-- You are correct. Big publisher books are like first rate gardening tools. Companies that make good ones should resist Amazon/WalMart pressure to lower their wholesale prices and, inevitably, the quality of their product.
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Originally Posted by Top100EbooksRank
To achieve its goal, Hachette needs to delay the final agreement until late 2014 or early 2015. That is the earliest time they will be able to conclude an agreement with Amazon that restricts Amazon’s ability to discount ebooks.
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What did you think of tubemonkey's garden weeding tool idea?
It tubemonkey is right, Hachette is right to do what it needs to do to preserve gardening tool quality.
If tubemonkey is wrong, I guess it's more problematic. But I still can't see why you complained, earlier in #80, about Hachette not bargaining in good faith. Hachette doesn't bargain with neighborhood bookstores. Do they bargain with the High Street chains in Britian? Do they bargain with every eBook web site in France? In Poland? In India? Why should Hachette bargain at all?