Once again, I direct my readers to remember that Macmillan wanted to set their own prices anywhere from $5.99 to $15, so there would be many cases where Amazon wanted you to pay far more than the price at which the publisher wanted to sell their product.
And once again, I ask my readers to go read the breakdown of the finances--production, distribution, etc.--in question at Tobias Buckell's blog (http://www.tobiasbuckell.com/2010/01/31/why-my-books-are-no-longer-for-sale-via-amazon/), where the math demonstrates that Macmillan was trying to maintain control of how they price their products (just like Paizo, Ford, or Microsoft--not an unreasonable position to take), and Amazon was trying to do what we in the US call price-fixing. Which, we in the US, tend to disapprove of as a general business practice. Among other things.
Also? Amazon ain't selling you a book--it's licensing you the rights to read it on your device. And they can pull that license any time they want, which they've already done as witnessed by the situation with George Orwell's novel 1984--the irony of which can't possibly escape you.
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Date: Mon, Feb. 1st, 2010 04:57 pm (UTC)And once again, I ask my readers to go read the breakdown of the finances--production, distribution, etc.--in question at Tobias Buckell's blog (http://www.tobiasbuckell.com/2010/01/31/why-my-books-are-no-longer-for-sale-via-amazon/), where the math demonstrates that Macmillan was trying to maintain control of how they price their products (just like Paizo, Ford, or Microsoft--not an unreasonable position to take), and Amazon was trying to do what we in the US call price-fixing. Which, we in the US, tend to disapprove of as a general business practice. Among other things.
Also? Amazon ain't selling you a book--it's licensing you the rights to read it on your device. And they can pull that license any time they want, which they've already done as witnessed by the situation with George Orwell's novel 1984--the irony of which can't possibly escape you.