Thread: Literary elites v. Amazon: yes, it's class warfare
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Old 10-06-2014, 04:22 AM   #176
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Originally Posted by Hitch View Post
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Screw the political and conspiracy theory and all those arguments; here's the core of it. If they have complaints, do NOT SELL THERE.
Really? Why don't you just turn that argument around? If Amazon didn't like the agency pricing model of the large publishers, then why didn't Amazon stop selling them and concentrated on its own publishing instead? After all, it's Amazon who are claiming that the publishers are obsolete.
You know why? Because their bookshop would be nothing more than a waste of bandwith without the books of the large publishing houses. So instead of letting "the market decide" they rather went to complain to their enforcer at the Justice Department who then weighed in on behalf the biggest schoolyard bully.
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