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Originally Posted by Barcey
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.
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Let's see, Amazon uses it's dominate market position to dictate to suppliers and sells product for less than cost to seize control of the market (i.e. exactly what Standard Oil was accused of) and that's fine with you. A group of publishers say they want to individual determine the price of their books (i.e. agency model) and you consider that evil. Hum...
First off, Hachette delaying does _not_ equal illegally conspire with the other publishers. It simply means that Amazon has less leverage. It's a lot easier to play strong arm games, such as pulling pre orders, when you are only dealing with a small group of books. Heck, most customers wouldn't have even noticed if it hadn't been in the news. Trying the same tactic with multiple publishers means that a larger percentage of the books that people want to buy are effected.
Second, I remind you that the publishers settled out of court without admitting guilt. The legality of publisher banding together to hold out for agency pricing has not been determined yet.