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Originally Posted by Deneb
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.
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My own take is that Macmillan is the "less evil guy" in this dispute.
As for buying elsewhere, I'm not a Kindle owner and I can't buy Kindle books for my Reader. That means I get no benefit from Amazon's $9.99 price policy because it doesn't apply to me. Amazon's not saying "we want low prices because they are good for consumers," they're trying to use low prices to get people to buy in to their own particular form of ebook vendor lock-in.
That's not what I call the behavior of the good guy.