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Originally Posted by JSWolf
We made you what you are, so now let us screw over your customers.
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We, meaning the people who buy eBooks shortly after release, made they what they are?
What about those who buy hardcovers, at or near list price, from independent bookshops?
What about acquisitions librarians who buy Hachette eBooks at much higher prices than were charged under agency?
What about the book purchasers in France, where I think Hachette still sells more books than in the English speaking countries combined, and where book discounting is legally limited to 5 percent?
What about the people who buy several Hachette titles from remainder tables, rather than one new one?
What about me, when I flew on an Airbus? (Hachette's parent had a significant stake, since sold.)
What about Malcolm Gladwell?
What about Robert Galbraith AKA J. K. Rowling?
What about J. D. Salinger?
What about the editors?
What about the janitors who make it a clean place to work?
I'm not dismissing the importance of the people you term "we" when it comes to making Hachette an artistic and commercial success, to the degree it is either. But this "we" shouldn't be considered more important than the other groups making the company what it is.