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Originally Posted by Harmon
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Originally Posted by Gladtobemom
Why couldn't Amazon have stopped selling the book, then turned the money received for it over to the publisher. This would have adequately covered the publisher's profits off of the sales. Publishers don't make more than a buck for a paperback of a non upgrade type paperback.
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Maybe the owner wouldn't accept that. Their strategy might involve keeping the book from being etext at all. |
In this case, the rights holder *does* sell ebook versions; Amazon sells
1984 for ~$10 for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
So this wasn't a situation like the Rand or Rowling books, where the rights holder has, for whatever reasons, not released an ebook version--this is about people choosing the $1 version instead of the $10 version, and Amazon then realizing it didn't have the right to sell the $1 version through a different publisher.