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Originally Posted by fugazied
Consumers don't care about publisher/distributor fights but they do care when thousands of books disappear from a catalogue abruptly.
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Uh you obviously haven't been to the Amazon discussion board. And while consumers might not care about some random fight between publishers and distributors they sure seem to care about this one. Since they perceive MM as just not caring about them as customers and that MM is directly trying to take more money out of their pockets. While they have been loyal book buyers and they feel betrayed. Consumers have a tendency of paying attention to that kind of thing. There is nothing worse (for a company) than a consumer who is butthurt.
And while there are consumers that are upset about the books disappearing there are a TON more that are on the boycott MM bandwagon and are all fired up about it. Those author blogs are skewing the reality of just how many Amazon customers are pissed at MM.