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Originally Posted by JSWolf
You totally got it all wrong. Apple and the price fix 6 thought that when the price differences between Amazon and all other eBook shop was equalized, that customers would shop at other stores. That didn't happen. That just kept Kindle owners shopping at Amazon.
When Fictionwise was in full swing before agency, there were lots of threads about Fictionwise. Lots of MR users shopped there. I know I did.
Apple's entry into the eBook market would not have cause these little shops to fold if if wasn't for agency. Agency caused the little stores to have to stop the discounts, sales, rewards, buyers clubs and so forth.
What was meant to hurt Amazon helped Amazon. It hurt the little guys instead of Amazon. It backfired big time and Apple and the price fix 6 should be punished for causing good stores to go under.
I'm sorry you are blind to the facts. The facts are, that these store were competitive with Amazon and people shopped there. After they stopped being competitive (BECAUSE OF AGENCY), people had no reason to go there so they shopped elsewhere.
How can you not get it? How can you see things that don't exist? You remind me of the conspiracy theorists who think the moon landing was fake and that 9/11 was masterminded by the US government.
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Let's see, Amazon's share went from 90 percent to 60 percent, but that means that Amazon was "helped". Fictionwise was sold in 2009 to B&N. Books on Board was scrambling for funding from venture capitalist in 2009. Diesal was planning to switch to a social ebook business. It seems to me that you are the one who is ignoring any facts that disagree with your narrative. I will point out that your narrative is based on a suit that some lawyer is peddling trying to extract some money first from Amazon (he failed) and now Apple and the publishers.
I don't think that I'm the one who is blind to facts. You have a narrative and you keep chanting the narrative like a mantra in the face of any fact that doesn't agree with that narrative.