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Originally Posted by Hitch
but it was Amazon that was on the side of making them cheaper.
As she also says--you don't like the pricing, don't buy them, right? Like any other product.
Hitch
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I like everything else you said. However, Amazon was not on the side of making ebooks cheaper. Amazon was on their own side of buying up a market and running competitors out of business.
No? Well, Amazon had a choice to accept windowing over agency...allowing Amazon to continue selling ebooks at a loss. But no. Amazon knows that there is a finite time where interest is high and MOST of the sales of a book that are going to happen, happen. To be "windowed" out of the market would mean Amazon missing the market.....AND....it would make Amazon's Kindle tablet a LOT less appealing.
So Amazon chose their own self interest and gave pricing control to the publishers because, frankly, Amazon had already established their near monopoly position already.
Amazon and Walmart both do work hard to lower prices....but as retailers so powerful that they can hammer the actual creators and manufacturers into submission. Sounds great for the consumer, until all the profit is taken out of a market killing further innovation.
If you want the quality of Kindle Unlimited to become THE quality of books going forward...keep voting with your dollars for the $.99 Amazon ebook.