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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Not the best example, because video games are commonly sold under minimum price arrangements:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c...act_id=1532998
It's closer to the opposite of what you are saying: Few people here whine about price maintenance except for books (although I do read the occasional anti-Apple yowl). |
This is called mobile
read. If you want to hear whining about price maintenance (though with Agency pricing it was actually price increase, not maintenance) in other areas, please look in the appropriate places. Surely you can't seriously conclude that this practice is accepted in other areas because there are no complaints on a dedicated reading forum?
And Steve. No problem for me if the buggy whip maker(s) die(s). Amazon is right now competing in these areas. But that does not mean it should hand over the retail trade and allow the buggy whip makers to rape and pillage at will. I expect most authors will move to Amazon anyway as the buggy whip makers continue to provide such a poor deal to all but the most successful authors.
Finally, Amazon is not a monopoly at the moment. But it may well be one soon if it's only "competition" is the buggy whip makers, who don't want to compete but to conspire and complain.
And thankyou for the phrase buggy whip makers. I propose that henceforth users of this forum use this term abbreviated to BWM instead of BPH.