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Originally Posted by Lemurion
Amazon is a retailer: It is in their best interest to pay as little as possible for the products they sell. Their own self-publishing contract has been analyzed by several authors and is very lopsided against the author. Among other things Amazon has the ability to reduce the sale price to zero, and the author's cut along with it, at a whim.
Amazon and authors have directly opposed interests.
Authors and Macmillan have aligned interests. Both want to make as much money as possible from selling books to booksellers.
It is very much more in Amazon's economic interest to screw authors than it is Macmillan's.
Also, Amazon has a history of using their market clout as a big hammer to force competitors and suppliers to back down and toe the Amazon line: See the lawsuit against the Amazon Bookstore, the Hachette incident, and the requirement that all POD books go through their own printing facility.
Amazon plays rough and always has.
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I could say exactly the same about MacMillan. You and I are clearly on different side of this, but the bottom line as has been said above is that Amazon and MacMillan are only in the game for themselves and their ROI to investors. MacMillan has screwed authors for longer than Amazon has been involved. Based on what MacMillan has stated it is my belief that sales will fall due to their actions and piracy will increase.
I will not respond to this merry-go-round again, I've said what I've said too many times already. I'll let history sort it out. But go ahead and hit me with one more round of GO MACMILLAN GO!