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Originally Posted by John F
And it is very common for companies and people to act as government intends, sometimes for good reasons, and sometimes not.
And it is very common for companies and people to spin things or play dumb, when they know they are not acting as the government intended, see DuckieTigger's posts.*
*I don't mean to imply that DuckieTigger is playing dumb, but how he explains how companies may spin things.
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But it is still premature to jump all over the publishers. They have not had time to react and they probably are still working out how to remain functioning under the pandemic (which might include reducing e-book prices).
I do not doubt that amazon's system requires them to do it book by book.
JKR was probably able to act quickly because of the small number of titles, or maybe JKR has more on the ball, or maybe JKR is less greedy. It is just too soon to know yet.