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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
So Amazon cannot really afford to dump them either, in your opinion.
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I think they can afford to dump Hachette. But I don't know that they afford to make that a precedent.
I can't find the expiration dates for the other publishers, but it sounds like
Harper-Collins and Simon and Schuster come real soon. Now we are talking about publishers of campaign biographies. Can they afford to slap a "ships in 3-5 weeks" warning on a book by the next president of the United States -- much less make that book unavailable on the Kindle? Seems risky.
The bare knuckle approach would be to divide and conquer. Offer some publishers a much better deal than others. Every two years, pick off another victim at the renewal. No one really knows if that would work.