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Originally Posted by fjtorres

One publisher isn't following suit and that is BAEN.
A direct competitor to Tor, which is the whole cause of the catfight, apparently.

https://scrivenerserror.blogspot.com/2019/11/jB08x.html

Yes, this article isn't heavily biased at all. The author barely goes a sentence without insulting Tor, Macmillan, or anyone not sharing his viewpoint.

So, Tor's business is hurting enough that a (mythical?) eight percent of their sales is worth going to war with (by their own admission) one of their biggest customers? Really?

Where has Macmillan said libraries were their biggest customers? Figures posted here would seem to indicate otherwise, that libraries make up a rather small percentage of their sales. Even Overdrive backs this up noting a rather limited selection of Tor books were bought by libraries.

And they do this just as BAEN finalized a years-long struggle to get their books into libraries? So libraries boycotting MacMillan can divert the money to BAEN?

I have never heard of anyone going to a bookstore or library and asking "Where are the *insert publisher* books?".

If TOR's sales have dropped that much (which I don't doubt on price alone) that they need an 8% boost of their sales enough to start this fight they must be pretty close to the edge.

For that matter, SF&F is supposed to be a niche: does TOR matter that much to MacMillan's bottom line?

This just in companies like making money, if 8% can be gained without any major offset, then they're going to want to gain that 8%.