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Originally Posted by stustaff
I think the public library thing is different to here as in the UK you could just buy a book and put it in the library and our libraries accept donations too so that couldn't be an issue here.
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It's the same here in the US. But TallMomOf2 was talking about e-books, which is entirely different. You can't just buy and e-book and donate it to the library, unfortunately.
I don't see what's wrong with Scalzi's post. Putting aside whether you agree with Amazon vs. Macmillan's in regard to pricing (consumers want lower prices, naturally), Amazon acted like a petulant child who took his ball back because the other kids weren't playing the way he wanted to. Do they have a legitimate reason to disagree with Macmillan? Sure. But they way they handled it was awful. A lot of that could have been mitigated by simply coming out at the beginning and saying "Hey, we're removing Macmillan books from our site because we disagree with the pricing structure they want to implement, and we think you consumers deserve better." They kinda, sorta, did that later on, but by then it was too late.