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Originally Posted by crich70
I think that smacks of something nasty myself. Basically if they can't get what they want they won't provide what the customer wants to buy. Or at least that's how that sounds to me. It's like someone is selling lemonade at .50 a cup and expects their neighbor (who is also selling lemonade) to not sell it at .10 a cup
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It was the same windowing that publishers have used "forever". Hardback comes out at highest price. Then, later, an expensive soft cover (but less than the hardback) comes out. Then, lastly, the cheap paperback book is released. That was how the business worked.
And it's not two people selling lemonade. It's two retailers selling the producer's product. Same actual product.
At stake was one of the publisher's customers devaluing the product for all of the publisher's customers...which comes to devalue the product for the publisher.