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Originally Posted by pwalker8
It's relevant from the stand point that some seem to think there is one guy setting policy for Penguin, for example, while the reality is that each little imprint and purchasing editor within Penguin is doing their own thing within broad guidelines. Heck, even if you look at the same imprint within Penguin, say G.P. Putnam's Sons, you see that all the kindle prices aren't the same for all new books put out in the same month, just a quick cursory glance shows prices varying several dollars from book to book. The big 5 publishers are hardly the monolith that people seem to assume.
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I see your point now. Your article you linked, if I read it correctly, was talking about the ownership of each Big5 as a whole. That inside each Big5 is yet another hot mess of their own with imprints galore, is a different thing, IMO. I did not make the connection to zoom in, so to say. Trying different strategies with different imprints can be either by freedom of choice from each imprint, or that allowance comes from higher up. We can never know for sure.
Either way, the fact that each big publisher, and by extension each tiny imprint, is owned by an even bigger company only complicates the restrictions that apply.