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Originally Posted by tompe
Of course I believed it since it is the rational thing for Amazon to do. And they are already domination the paper book market so they can use their dominance to get lower prices. The initial sales rating on Amazon for a newly released book is very important for authors for example.
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Amazon is not dominating the paper book market, you can still go elsewhere to buy books. It's a very big player, not an inescapable one.
Lower prices are good for us. Please don't go in the "decrease of creativity" line. If authors would stop to write then, there wouldn't be so many already keeping a day job while writting. And that's not troubling the publishers.
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Originally Posted by Lemurion
My own take is that Macmillan is the "less evil guy" in this dispute.
That's not what I call the behavior of the good guy.
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I didn't say Amazon was the good guy. You said Amazon is worse, I disagree. What's the difference between "do as we say or we don't sell your books" and "do as we say or we don't sell you our books to resell"? Who's the biggest bully tell me?
They are big enought to handle each other, what we have to watch is which one is more dangerous for us consumers...And here, in my opinion, it's MacMillan.
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Originally Posted by Lemurion
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.
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Precisely, you can go elsewhere to buy the books, and you can choose not to own a kindle. What choice do you have with MacMillan fixing prices for all the resellers?
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Actually you do. Compare prices in other eBook stores now with what they were before Amazon introduced a $9.99 price-point for best-sellers. Many of the other stores have matched that price. Everybody's gained, Kindle or no Kindle.
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Yes, I agree too
