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Old 07-27-2014, 04:30 PM   #397
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Originally Posted by Andrew H. View Post
I think this kind of simplistic analysis is both simplistic and non-helpful. What Amazon offers is not a priori a good or bad deal, and, importantly, there is no Jimmy Stewart to whom authors can turn to get an automatically better deal. Like anything else, authors have to look at the terms to see whether it make sense for them or not.
You may well be right about Amazon and KU but the pedant in me wants to point out that Jimmy Stewart didn't have a better deal, which is why he had to make the appeal in the way he did.

Anyway it's not my analogy so...
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