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Originally Posted by Pajamaman
I reread your post and I think I got it. I'll reiterate. You are suggesting that Amazon wants to cooperate with other sellers to sell it's products. I see know evidence of that. Do you?
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I'm not suggesting that Amazon wants to cooperate with other sellers. They may or may not. What I am suggesting is that if other sellers want to sell Amazon books Amazon may well agree. Not necessarily because they want to agree. But because anti-trust and similar competition laws may make this in Amazon's best interests. Particularly with its imprints. To see Amazon's imprints look at:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.ht...cId=1000664761(its own publishing companies).
Amazon may well like to see at least books from its imprints in B&N' and Independent bookstores, but they are subject to boycott. See, for example:
http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapt...boycott-Amazon
EDIT: AnemicOak's post above is very interesting as it shows a 47North (Amazon Imprint) book for sale on Barnes and Noble. Personally I haven't seen this before. Perhaps B&N have changed their attitude? Or perhaps this is a rare exception? Either way, it looks like Amazon has permitted it.