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Originally Posted by eschwartz
No the question is can they successfully tell people that it is Hachette's inefficiency that is causing the delays, and they won' sign a contract to make it worth Amazon's while to lay in a huge stock in their own warehouses that they may be unable to sell?
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Not too much question there. The media here is the umpire, and I think we may just agree that the umpire would probably attribute the delay threat to Amazon. I suspect we'd disagree on whether the umpire is being fair, but that's wasn't what you said is the question.
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As far as making books unavailable on the Kindle, haven't we long since concluded that that claim was a frakking lie?
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You mean, because they can drop DRM, and then ask the purchaser to either sideload, or send a file to their kindle.com address? Failing to mention an option that arguably increases risk of the book being shoplifted, and makes obtaining it beyond the technical expertise level of many readers, is not an underlined and boldfaced lie. By the standard of political campaigns -- not to mention Stephen Colbert -- I'd say it has considerable truthiness.