Thread: Why Macmillan was banned from Amazon
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Old 02-12-2010, 03:33 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by tompe View Post
Call it what you want. Selling things at a loss to force out the competition and then force the suppliers to lower the price seems to me to be a kind of price fixing.
Call it what you like.

I'm a customer. Last week I could buy xxx book for $9.99. next month the SAME book will cost me $15.99. NOTHING has changed except Macmillan says I HAVE TO pay 30% more!

THAT is why copyright monopolies are a bad thing. Amazon called it right when they said they had 'no choice' but to capitulate.

If I were Amazon, I'd stop selling Macmillan books forever.

Macmillan can fix the price it sells it's product to for any retailer. Once the retailer pays the publisher, the retailer can give the damn thing away if it chooses to do so.

What next? Macmillan to dictate how much second hand books can be sold for?
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