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Third, while Amazon wants to encourage ebook sales, not everyone else does. Regardless of whether one agrees with such a decision, it is as legitimate a business decision to not encourage ebook sales as it is to encourage ebook sales, especially in the current market where the majority of sales are still print.
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Amazon doesn't care about pbook sales because bookstores are discriminating against their KDP users and refusing to carry their books. Why
should Amazon care. (And whose fault is it?)
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Finally, the bottom line is that authors do not have to sign on with Hachette or any other publisher. And when they do sign on, they are aware of the terms. That they continue to sign on or want to sign on with a BPH is an indication, at least to me, that there is still perceived value in being published by a BPH and that authors view that value as part of the compensation they receive.
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Except for the ones who signed on before the ebook, where the publisher managed to successfully claim the rights to the ebooks that nobody expected then knew about. Or the ones that signed on without being aware of their options, or because the people they talked to put the fear of indie in them.
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So far, Amazon has only brought to the table suggestions that cost Hachette money. I'm waiting for Amazon to bring some sacrifice of its own to the table.
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They have. They offered a return to wholesale. Hachette is insisting on Agency as a sticking point, so Amazon is now demanding some concessions in return.