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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Actually, it's a fairly accurate portrayal of the publishers view of ebooks. They want competition in the ebook arena and don't want to be dependent on Amazon. No businessman wants to be in a situation where they are totally dependent on one retailer. You can view it as an attack on Bezos even though he is no where mentioned, but it's the reality of the situation. Amazon has a business model that they borrowed from Walmart, low margins and squeeze the supplier. Bezos is quite open about it and talks about studying the Walmart model. That is not an evil thing. It's a valid business model. Kind of hard on the suppliers though, thus the publishers desire not to be trapped by it.
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Bezos is mentioned in the post to which I was responding. I wasn't responding to the original post.
That is why I quoted it.
The big publishing houses are insuring competition among ebook distributors in the same way frustrated tenement residents get their plumbing problems fixed by pounding on the pipes with an axe. As I pointed out in the post you only quoted part of, the attempted price fixing with Apple damaged both Fictionwise and Feedbooks. Both of those were stores I frequented.