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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Hey, any stick to beat the publishers with makes it a good thing, right? 
Some publishers and some authors tried an ebook embargo with Amazon a while back. Hold back ebooks for several months. While I don't have any data, the fact that they stopped doing it implies that the results were not what they wanted. But, of course, libraries are a very different situation. Libraries have lost a lot of leverage with publishers as their share of the business has gone down over the years. For the most part, they are reduced to the library patrons as major influencers argument, an argument of which I'm rather skeptical.
I think that around here, libraries have been losing the funding fight for a while. You are probably right that any fight where they expend public influence to not carry books isn't a good look for them. |
Unless of course the Amazon embargo was part of the pressure to get them to go with agency pricing on those new books rather than 9.99 in which case it’s mission accomplished.