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Originally Posted by delphidb96
I love how you manage to change word definitions on the fly! Amazon has been using their model for years, even before MacM's "agency' model was a twinkle in their marketing department's eye.
So how is Amazon the 'new kid'? So to speak...
Derek
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Nice, isn't it? The advantage of only having the slightest idea of what you are talking about
When did amazon actually start selling ebooks? I honestly do not know. In physical objects they still run some of the risks as far as I can tell.
The ebookmarket has always been really small, and not much of a problem, and publishers are famously slow to react to changing circumstances. But the increase in competition for Amazon since the last CES and the Apple announcement could have been the impulse to act.
ETA: I do not know if this is actually true, I do not know if a legal case could be made this way. But I getting a bit tired of the "all publishers are evil" and "amazon should have the right to sell as cheap as they want" reactions I so often see. I just wanted to present a different viewpoint and maybe could have done that in a more friendly way.