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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Ever since Amazon caved on the agency model, things have been pretty quiet between Amazon and the big publishers. Have you heard anything about Amazon trying to squeeze the big 5?
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Well...let’s see. Amazon directly threatened the business of the publishers by putting all of the best sellers on sale for $9.99 while still in the window where publishers were trying to sell the $25 hard backs. Why? To use the books as a loss leader to sell and establish the $400 Kindle ereader.
There was at least once where all the books of a given publisher were taken off Amazon.
Oh, but that was THEN.
Now Amazon is its own publisher. Amazon is a book seller so powerful that one CAN'T not do business with them....all while Amazon has set itself up as a direct competitor.