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Originally Posted by starrigger
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Do I have reservations and suspicions about the Agency model? Yes, I do. Am I "siding" with Macmillan? No, I'm not. Do I have loyalty to the people at my publisher who work hard on my behalf? Sure I do. Am I glad that most of my ebooks, even of books that were published by Tor, are published independently? Absolutely. Do I favor low-priced, DRM-free ebooks? Totally.
Do I think Amazon behaved despicably? Damn straight.
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Thanks for that Jeffery. Let's think about this, if the shoe were on the other foot. Let's say MacMillan had decided not to allow Amazon to sell it's ebooks (as they have with libraries), would that be okay?
Do retailers have the right to stock and sell a product -- say Dial Soap in place of another say Irish Spring.
If a supermarket chain has a falling out with a soap manufacturer because that manufacturer wants to set the retail price for that soap and they pull it from their shelves is that despicable behavior?