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Originally Posted by charleski
So the Amazon camp is admitting that Bezos was using the Kindle and its pricing model as a means of taking control of the industry. When he says, '...go right to the authors,' you know he's not talking about downloading books from an independent author's website, he's talking about you putting money in Amazon's pocket.
I agree that the agency model is a terrible idea and one that will hopefully die a natural death as soon as it is no longer needed. But it's a protective mechanism against a single retailer that's grown too big and is ruthless in its desire to grow bigger. Of course, Jobs is just as ruthless in his megalomania.
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The publishers have only themselves to blames for how big Amazon has grown. It's their own mistakes and inability to execute that has made Amazon successful.
It's their own insistence on DRM that is giving Amazon the power.
They actually think it's easier to manipulate the entire industry through price fixing and to educate the consumer on "what the price has to be" rather then adapt to the free market price. When they fail they'll blame Amazon again.