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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
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. |
Um, because as Nate immediately pointed out, the dynamics for ereaders are very different from ebooks?
Ereaders are sold at or near cost. Stores can discount them -- if they don't mind losing that money. As there is no real incentive for them to sell more Kindles (they make no money off ebook sales) they simply decide not to discount.
Amazon has been known to discount Kindles -- since they want more people to own a Kindle and then buy books from Amazon to stock it.
Why don't you suggest a reason why any store (staples, Best Buy, Office Depot, etc.) would
want to seriously discount Kindles?