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Originally Posted by Lemurion
Macmillan isn't trying to screw their writers: Amazon is trying to pull a Wal-Mart and screw everyone upstream of them in the supply chain; including both publishers and authors.
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Selling the same product for more money and giving less to the authors sure doesn't sound like not trying to screw the writers, especially on a product that can be essentially reproduced for nothing. But hey, if you price it high enough that it won't sell, you don't have to worry about how much you pay the writers, you can blame amazon for it not selling rather than your screwing of consumers, and the format the publisher wants dead might even stagnate.
and trying to compare this to wal mart is pretty far fetched, Amazon wasn't trying to dictate what Macmillian sold books to them for and forcing them to cut back on their already lackluster ebook support in order to hit a price goal.