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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
No - as I said in my post - I DEPLORE adding restrictions on ebook marketing.
My point was that seemingly the only way to get publishers' attention is through direct threats to their existence (i.e. their income) - and currently (IMHO) Amazon is the only entity large enough (and with enough money of its own) to challenge the stranglehold publishers have over the availability & distribution of their authors' works in eBook format(s).
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The only way to stop this exclusivity is for enough people who would purchase these exclusive eBooks to tell the author that yes, I want to buy your books, but no, I will not when they are under some sort of exclusive deal. And then don't buy them. So if nobody buys them, the author will get the idea that this exclusive deal was a bad idea and never do it again. Maybe other authors will find out how badly it went and not do ti as well. We have to vote with our wallet. But not only do we not have to buy them, we have to let the people the need to know just why it is we did not buy the books. If they don't know, then all they'll think is that this author just doesn't do well in eBook.
P.S. Sorry I misread your post.