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Originally Posted by Purple Lady
All other publishers disappeared from Fictionwise so even if I wanted to pay the ridiculous prices there were no other big publishers books to buy. How long can an ebook store survive if they can't sell books from the big publishers?
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That is another thing that is troublesome. There was not enough time set aside to truly negotiate. Even the deal with Amazon was rushed, the negotiations with anybody else was on the back burner. Granted, if there wouldn't have been such an extremely short nonnegotiable ultimatum on the table, the outcome of bullying Amazon into agency might not have happened at the terms that Amazon only agreed to as lesser than two evils.
The small bookstores never had a change to negotiate without losing the ability to sell those affected books for a while. There was no such thing as a grace period until everybody had a fair chance to negotiate properly.