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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
For the BPH books, the publisher is the BPH (Doh!  ), so Amazon has nothing to do with setting the price if it says "set by publisher." |
The thing is, since the vast majority of products sold at retail have the price set by the retailer, people's first reaction is always to attribute price hikes to the retailer. Which is why Amazon is comfortable with public catfights and flags the overpriced BPH products to minimize the fallout.
Of course, minimizing is never 100% effective.
So Amazon takes flack.
It is no different than when tradpubbed authors, used to being featured prominently on bookstore front tables, blame amazon for only promoting/discounting "their own" titles, totally ignoring that their publisher doesn't let Amazon discount their ebooks or that Amazon doesn't control Indie titles.