Thread: Amazon vs. Hachette Update - It's About Price
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Old 08-04-2014, 08:29 PM   #241
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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger View Post
Amazon will sell ebooks no matter if it is agency or non-agency. Hachette has to decide how important agency pricing is to them, or rather how much they are willing to pay for it. If they go agency pricing with Amazon, and try to do non-agency with everybody else that should void the contract with Amazon - Amazon would be really stupid not to include such a clause. If they go non-agency with Amazon now, no other retailer would agree to agency pricing. The whip that Amazon has is the power to decline any agency pricing contract with Hachette now until it is clear which way they go when negotiating with Apple. Maybe Hachette is hoping for Apples appeal to go through and lift the limit of them having to negotiate alone.

I highly doubt it will happen in time before Hachette has to reveal their hand. Amazon may happily screw over Hachette, but don't for a second believe that Hachette wouldn't happily screw over Amazon.
What in the world makes you think that Hatchette would insist on agency pricing with Amazon and not with anyone else? Publishers want agency pricing with everyone, not just Amazon.
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