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Amazon has every right to refuse to sell consumer goods in response to a pricing disagreement with a wholesaler. But books are not mere consumer goods. Books cannot be written more cheaply, nor can authors be outsourced to another country. 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 his or her book finding readers.
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It made me laugh that James Patterson signed off on this. Maybe it was one of his ghostwriters. He really has no shame.
I'm sorry but as soon as you put a price on it and toss it in a bargain bin it's a mere consumer good. I think that was done long before Amazon was an eeeeeevil glint in Bezos's eye.