01-16-2021, 07:14 AM | #16 | |
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The idea is to make eBook more affordable and the publishers in this time when money can be tight for a lot of people, screw them out of the saving the government put in place to help them. |
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01-16-2021, 07:34 AM | #17 |
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This is an off-topic comment. (You can ask an Active Moderator to delete my post if this thread moves too far away from the subject.) I love the photo of your PUG. We have one, too, and he snores louder than my wife! He's a great dog, but doesn't know that he's a dog. PUGs are great social animals, as you well know, and ours loves to follow his 'pets' around the house. ZodWallop (OP) and other posters: Please ask this post to be deleted if desired. Last edited by Dr. Drib; 01-16-2021 at 07:38 AM. |
01-16-2021, 10:12 AM | #18 | |
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The Publishers should be able to set a price to Apple, Google, Amazon, Smashwords for books (same also for games). Then the retailer charges whatever they want. Why is this actually illegal in UK and Ireland of the Publisher setting a retail price and getting a percentage decided by Amazon allowed at all? It's not allowed in real shops for anything, in Ireland and the UK. The mysterious way VAT works is a whole separate issue and irrelevant to this. Are publishers allowed to set the RETAIL price in USA physical shops, or only set the price they sell to retail or wholesale? Which varies elsewhere, like supermarkets only stock already successful books and get a discount, in UK and Ireland, because basically of volume, probably cuts out wholesalers. Last edited by Quoth; 01-16-2021 at 10:19 AM. |
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01-16-2021, 02:01 PM | #19 |
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It seems it is Amazon's most favored nation (MFN) clause that brought about the lawsuit.
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01-16-2021, 06:10 PM | #20 |
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I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you that a group of ambulance chasers is going after companies with deep pocket trying to make a bundle!
Agency pricing is completely legal and most favored nation clauses is a normal part of agency pricing. In theory, to be successful, they would have to prove some form of collusion. The Kindle prices for best selling books actually various quite a bit. Obama's book is priced at $18, yet Gupta's Keep Sharp is priced at $14, Unmasked is priced at $16. Of course, they might find some sympathetic judge and jury who will rule in their favor, that's why companies settle out of court, but it seems unlikely. |
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Agency pricing isn't anti-competitive. It's used in many industries. There is no "fair price" for ebooks. Fair is in the eye of the beholder. If a book is too expensive, buy a different book. There are an endless supply of free and $1 books, and there is the library. |
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Amazon putting all the best sellers on sale for $9.99 was harming the business the publishers had built. And it worked for Amazon. Sell the every expensive Kindle by losing money on those ebooks...and by the time the price was able to come down on the ebook readers, Amazon owned the market. And thus going to agency didn't bother Amazon at all. |
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