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"Amazon has every right to refuse to sell consumer goods in response to a pricing disagreement with a wholesaler. We all appreciate discounted razor blades and cheaper shoes. But books are not consumer goods. Books cannot be written more cheaply, nor can authors be outsourced to China. Books are not toasters or televisions. Each book is the unique, quirky creation of a lonely, intense, and often expensive struggle on the part of a single individual, a person whose living depends on that book finding readers. This is the process Amazon is obstructing."
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And once again
Why does the uniqueness of the books make them not consumer goods? Two uniquely different books are still interchangeable; I can either buy a Discworld book, or a Dresden Files book, a Percy Jackson book, an Alex Verus book, a Simon R. Green book... They all provide the same entertainment.
OK, once I buy one book I will want to buy all the other books in the series... but then a series is a unique but interchangeable product, because there is still nothing to say any one series/author is more of a must-read than any other.