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Originally Posted by Sydney's Mom
Only problem is, the major booksellers got into a price war, so no one made any money.
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The publishers make theirs regardless of what the stores sell it for. But when the stores are determined to sell it at a price that they don't like, the only option they have is to avoid giving that store access to their wares.
The music industry was outraged at the money that Apple made off of the iPod because they felt that their own product was devalued to sell the iPod--which they didn't make anything from.
I suspect the publishers see the e-readers the same way.
One thing I'm sure of: This is a A or B move. One or two years from now we'll realize that it either it stemmed the tide of e-reader sales when people found that they couldn't get the new King/Palin/Crichton novel --- or the outrage forced the publishers to go back on their plans.