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Originally Posted by Rizla
So there is some truth in the article? From what I recall, the article states that Amazon wants agency pricing. So they didn't fight very hard against it? So what is the true case? It sounds to me like you're saying that, yes, Amazon do want to keep agency pricing. *confused*
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No, they didn't fight *very* hard...
They only resisted for six months of public insults, calls for boycotts, being compared to murderous military dictators...
That industry insider, btw, makes his living as a consultant to tradpub. How many accounts would he keep if he publicly told people (authors!) that the reason their income went down was the publishers' fault?
The comment I saw came to him *third hand* via an agent.
Calling the statement propaganda is being kind.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked