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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
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.
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Yeah, right. The poor colluding publishers just can't make any money selling best seller eBooks at an average of $10 instead of $13. Keep in mind that the cost of distributing these eBooks is next to nothing. (You don't have to print, bind and ship eBooks.) Besides, by what I read, the publishers actually made
less in the Apple collusion-spawned agency pricing scheme than they did with the old straight wholesale pricing. And who says the old school publishers should control the market anyhow? Maybe it's time for some new blood.