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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Or perhaps Amazon wanted a time limit because they wanted to strong arm the publishers into line one at a time rather than deal with several at the same time. Amazon isn't as pure as the driven snow. This is two large corporations negotiating. Hachette looks at this from a publisher's point of view, while Amazon looks at it from a retailer's point of view. Neither looks at it from the customer's point of view, Amazon's protestations to the contrary.
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It sounds like you agree that Hachette is delaying so that they can illegally conspire with the other publishers again. Where we seem to disagree is that you think they should be allowed to conspire with their "competitors" and form a cartel to strong arm Amazon.