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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
You are bringing up the different administration again, as if the current one would have done different. Go ahead, doubt as much as you want.
Thanks of reminding me of the new low some authors scooped down to. That was quite embarrassing, for the authors at least. In the quoted article from you I still fail to see where Amazon removed the buy option of released books. It was business as usual. Normal contract negotiations. Both sides are big, both sides pushed, both sides came to an agreeable contract in the end. Everybody else learned from Hachette by not doing the same mistake and let the contract expire.
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Authors stoop to a new low by complaining about Amazon doing something that cut their sales in half? You and I have very different ideas about who stooped to the new low in that situation. Kind of funny given that prior to that, the narrative about Amazon was that they really cared about the authors. Don't hear that narrative much anymore.
Amazon is a large corporation that cares about it's profits, just like those nasty publishers. Bezos is on record for using the Walmart model of business which involves a focus on cost reduction techniques such as squeezing suppliers. It was very successful for Walmart and has been very successful for Amazon. It's made Bezos the richest man in the world.