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Originally Posted by Lemurion
The authors aren't decrying the loss on e-book sales because it's a miniscule portion of their income. It's not really enough money for them to worry about. They are screaming about p-books because a) that's over 90% of their income and b) the p-books aren't part of the dispute.
I'm not getting behind Amazon because their behavior is reprehensible, and that matters more to me than the difference between a 40% and 60% discount off list.
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Such short sighted behavior on the part of both Macmillan and their authors. Amazon has been trying to grow the pool of people that actually read in the modern day, while Macmillan and their authors are more worried about protecting a rusty, creaking business model. They may have won this round of the fight and a bigger piece of the pie, but in the long run they are helping to make the pie smaller.
Amazon has been smart enough to realize that in the digital world content owners and sellers are walking a fine line between a reasonable pricing model and the darknet. Kindles and Nooks and the like aren't going away and their owners will continue to desire new content to fill them and this increase in prices, aside from being unreasonable, will come off as just plain tone deaf. People all across the United States are out of work and these people are demanding more money for the same product?!?! Ridiculous. If Ford demanded an extra 50% for the exact same product, without increasing the value, would people line up behind Ford? I think not. I think Ford would price itself right out of business. I for one can't wait until the big six of the publishing industry go gentle into that good night.