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Originally Posted by Jon_Doh
Amazon lowers book prices, which is a good thing for consumers and they're the bad guys and have to be stopped?
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Consider that "consumer," as used here, is not a synonym for reader.
Most readers do not buy the bestselling new releases for which Amazon has often charged loss-leader prices. Instead, most readers, on our planet, wait until the prices are much lower and/or borrow from libraries.
What about US readers of older works by popular genre fiction writers like Leslie Charteris, Ian Fleming, Louis L'Amour, and Ed McBain? Rights to some or all of their titles have been purchased by Amazon Publishing. This makes them free to the generally affluent people who subscribe to Kindle Unlimited, but infinitely more expensive than they would otherwise be to public library borrowers. This is because Amazon Publishing, unlikely the allegedly nasty big five, boycotts (for eBooks, not always for audio books) Overdrive, 3M, and Axis360.
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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Appearances can be deceiving, especially in appeals court.
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I don't have any evidence for or against this, but it sounds plausible.
I wonder whether the US Supreme Court would be a more predictably big-publisher friendly body. I believe that most of the justices have authored traditionally published books. And they may not have much interest in low book prices due to Library of Congress borrowing privileges. (Now there's a job perk I'd like.) And since the big publishers wouldn't be directly involved, having settled, no justice would need to recuse themselves. Could be (from my POV) interesting if it gets that far.