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Amazon = walmart.
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I think you're all picking on Amazon just because they're an industry monololith aiming to be a monopoly, wish to have complete control over practically all aspects of distributing an author's work,without any of the hassle that publishers have to go through to produce their work, and don't care a fig about any damage they might do to the book trade, individual authors, or the readers much, as long as they keep paying........
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But that was not what they said which you see if you read the quote. They said that they may reprice the book, and one possible reason was that they had found it at a lower price. They did not say that this was the reason in this case.
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Man, y'all crack me up.
It's utterly vile for the publisher to determine the price, because it should be up to the retailer. When the retailer slashes the price, it's also utterly vile because... the self-publisher ought to control the price. ![]() The author didn't read the fine print. And part of the price you pay, as an independent author using a self-publishing service like KDP, is that -- as Hines points out on his own blog -- you are on your own. You don't have a big publisher backing you up and yanking the retailer back in line; you don't have a publisher's lawyer combing through the agreement for the gotchas. And no, you can't trust Amazon's or Apple's anything to work flawlessly and in the author's interest. (For those hoping to reach humans, just keep in mind that Apple uses human screening for its apps, which results in backlogs and arbitrary -- and not necessarily arbitrary -- rejections of content.) Also, people 'round here are quite fond of touting the benefits of disintermediation and ditching the publishers -- without recognizing that this is just shifting power away from publishers and towards Amazon, Apple and whatever handful book retailers will be left standing. We're going to see a lot more of these kinds of incidents as self-publishing gains steam. On balance, will it be worth it? Beats me. I guess we'll find out soon enough. ![]() |
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Before this change, Target was my primary store for day-to-day purchases. Now Walmart is. |
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