Thread: Article: The Publishers are as bad as Amazon.
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Old 07-21-2014, 08:13 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by Barcey View Post
This article is pointing out how hypocritical Hachette's PR campaign has been.
The first paragraph accuses the big five of hypocrisy, but never got back to it -- unless one thinks that hypocrisy and treating authors badly are identical.

One thing that really is hypocritical is Amazon's history of disrespecting price maintenance agreements on merchandise it sells (see The Everything Store, which is IMHO essential reading for threads like this) when it's obvious that Amazon itself exercises price maintenance on eInk Kindles:

http://the-digital-reader.com/2012/0.../#.U82mXvldU14

P.S. What about Amazon fighting Hachette on agency while forbidding serious discounting of eInk Kindles? I'm not accusing Amazon of hypocrisy there, in part because I haven't found overwhelming evidence that the dispute between Amazon and Hachette is over agency. It probably is, but maybe they agreed on agency on day one but disagree on something else.
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