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Originally Posted by Jon_Doh
I don't get the Amazon hate and Apple love either. Amazon lowers book prices, which is a good thing for consumers and they're the bad guys and have to be stopped? Apple comes along and conspires with a number of book publishers to fix book prices, the end result is book prices on average going up over 100% and they are the victims and/or good guys? Boy, the world sure has changed since the "greed is good" crowd took over.
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It's because Amazon will force the publishers to sell their books for too low a price, the publishers won't be able to make any money so they won't be able to pay 6-7 figure advances to the big name authors, and after a couple of years of this, nobody will have any new books to read, or if we do, we'll only have lousy books from indie publishers or self-published authors.