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Originally Posted by Lemurion
Macmillan fought back because they don't want to end up in the same boat as a Wal-mart supplier.
As for bullying, the only bullying tactic involved here was the removal of buy buttons: and that was Amazon's doing. The rest was all negotiations.
Macmillan is by no means perfect, but just as wanting to raise prices isn't intrinsically evil (I don't like it but that doesn't make it evil), that doesn't mean that Amazon's action should get a free pass.
Amazon tried to bully Macmillan, authors, and consumers when they removed the buy buttons.
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The confessed goal of MacMillan for this "negociation" as you call it, is to "educate" us consumers on the "correct" price an ebook should cost and stop us from believing that silly notion an ebook should be cheaper.
Why else anyway? They were not loosing money, why should they care if amazon did?
They're bullying us a lot more than amazon is. We always have the option to go elsewere to buy the removed books, what choice do we have if they get away with the fixing of prices for all of their books?
Amazon is not the good guy, I know and your right, but from the point of view of the consumer that I am...MacMillan is definitly the bad guy...
And I stop believing their "for the good of the author" when they don't even try to hide the fact that they do everything in their power to screw them as much as they can.