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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
I wouldn't worry about it. Either one-or-the-other will cave, and the books will be back up at Amazon soon--or Macmillan *will* find another online outlet for its books.
I'm kinda hoping for that option. If a couple of large-ish publishers just aren't available through Amazon, that could be the breakpoint for Amazon's near-monopoly on online bookselling.
I think Amazon's shooting themselves in the foot with this one. Instead of intimidating Macmillan, they're scaring their own customers, who are getting a flash of, "wow... if there's a problem with Amazon, where am I gonna buy stuff?" And Amazon kept its market share by keeping people from ever asking that question.
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I sincerely hope you're right but....the titles that were there were there because they weren't available anywhere else. MacMillan could easily decide that "oh well too bad, we'll sell enough paper copies through other channels to make it up" and not make the ebooks available again, anywhere. They already seem less than enthusiastic about making their titles available in ebook. MacMillan is one of the worst offenders for leaving holes in series in ebook formats or the author's work isn't available at all in ebook forms.