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Originally Posted by CommonReader
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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Quite simply, because it's AMAZON'S STORE. Amazon can decide not to carry the publisher's books at any time, just as the publisher can stop selling at any time. I don't think you've quite thought through what you've said here. Amazon is selling books on the terms it finds acceptable. The publishers are, by and large, obviously going along with it, aren't they? It's not up to Amazon to stomp its feet and kick the publishers out; they're selling as they see fit. If the publishers don't like Amazon's terms, it's on THEM to move out and sell somewhere else--it's not Amazon's job to push them out. Again, it's the
dissatisfied party that needs to leave--
not the party who owns the sandbox.
I don't think I'm clear on what you
think happened at the Justice Department????
Hitch