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19 mar. 2010

“Amazon Playing Hardball With Book Publishers Over Kindle Pricing”

This publisher was told that if they switched to an agency model for ebooks, Amazon would stop selling their entire list, in print and digital form.

That’s not “playing hardball,” it’s playing Microsoft, and I’m pretty sure Amazon’s big enough that it’s illegal. Please tell me those publishers have been recording the phone calls in order to sue for abuse of monopoly.

I’d suggest you consider some kind of customer protest against Amazon, but (a) as unacceptable as their methods are, they’re trying to lower the prices of e-books, so it’s not the customers they’re screwing over, and (b) more importantly, Amazon is just irreplaceable for a French reader who enjoys English-language science-fiction.

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