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Originally Posted by Tuna
I have some sympathy for them with regards to Amazon. It's the same as the malls and hypermarkets making it impossible for the small local shop to compete. You can't just roll your eyes and suggest (as others have done) that all they needed to do was 'behave like Amazon'.
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I am not without sympathy and I'm not suggesting they behave like Amazon. What I said is that blaming an individual business as the source of your woes is not a good survival strategy. They don't have to be like Amazon but businesses have to find a way to keep going in a world where Amazon and big box stores exist or they have to let them go. Trying to move backwards won't work. They need to figure out what they can offer that the others don't and find a way to engage customers.
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There is a huge change going on in how we consume our media - and whilst we benefit from artificially low book prices, we suffer from a reduction of the ecosystem, at least in the short term.
In their case they may have had years during which their existing business model both paid their wages and allowed them to run the sort of business that they enjoyed. Now that business model is failing, expecting them to enthusiastically jump into an entirely different model of which they have no experience and little evidence of useful profit to be had is optimistic.
The people in the ebook business right now are pioneers. You have to applaud and support their pioneering spirit as the market matures. But you also have to accept that not everyone is a pioneer.
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Once again you attribute many opinions to me that I didn't state. I don't expect enthusiasm, I value entrepreneurship and I'm well aware that not everyone will adapt. I simply state the practicalities of the matter. It looks like you largely agree with me, you just seem to read a lot of feelings into what I said that don't exist.