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Amazon has artificially driven down the price of books and, because of its market dominance, it has been able to force publishers of all sizes, as well as independently published authors, to accept its terms on a “take it or leave it” basis.
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That's hilarious.
"Amazon should be looked into because they WANT to sell BPH books cheaper, but can't because many big publishers NEGOTIATED a return to agency pricing in their new contacts with Amazon. Contracts that they had no choice but to 'take or leave'."
Do they hear how stupid they sound!? I guarantee that if Amazon had enough market dominance to force publishers "of all sizes" to take their terms or leave, there would be no agency pricing whatsoever. Their success in renegotiating contracts with agency terms is proof positive that Amazon can't dictate whatever terms it wants.
When it boils right down to it; the only thing Amazon is truly guilty of is, is not bending over and letting an incestuous cabal dictate every single aspect of the book market any more.