If Hachette wants Amazon to sell ebooks at a higher price why don't they raise, double or even triple, the wholesale price they charge Amazon. Amazon would have to raise the retail price and the publishers and authors would get more money per book. No one has ever said that the publisher or any wholesaler shouldn't set the wholesale price they charge a retailer. Of course, if they only raise the wholesale price for one retailer, Amazon, and none of the others that might create some problems for them.
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