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Originally Posted by John F
The He Man Amazon Haters Club is splintering. The usual party message is "Amazon is evil, they are lowering prices to temporarily benefit the consumer and eliminate competition and will than become a monopoly and raise prices."  |
That's easily explained: There is no such party.
I've never met, or privately corresponded, with pwalker8. Many months ago I put a post on Mike Shatzkin's blog, and he replied to it there -- which was cool -- but that's where the conspiracy began and ended.
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Originally Posted by dickloraine
I'm just to confused by all this statements...
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Me too, although the statements that confuse me may be different ones.
Despite have missed the signup for his party membership card, I thought this Shatzkin post was on good take on what's most confusing:
http://www.idealog.com/blog/motivati...tariat-figure/
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The motivation of the authors who spend a great deal of time and energy bashing big publishers has puzzled me before. Because “price-shoppers” are a core audience for indie ebooks, indies actually got a shot in the arm when the publishers and Apple put in agency pricing, which in its original form prohibited even the retailer from taking a loss to bring branded ebook prices down. . . .
Perhaps the “explanation” that the published authors defending Hachette pursue their selfish interests but that the indie authors who bash Hachette and the others do it out of public-spiritedness, even if their own revenue suffers, does it for you even though it doesn’t for me.
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