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What’s Good for the Goose, or, Oh! My! Fucking! God!
Posted 7 April, 2008 in Book News, Assmonkeys |
An online price war for books has broken out, pitching Amazon against some of Britain’s biggest publishers.
Amazon is angry that Penguin, Bloomsbury and others are discounting titles on their websites, encouraging customers to buy direct instead of using the online retailer.
Yeah, God forbid a publisher should take the practice of deep discounting online, which Amazon practically invented, and use it to compete and, maybe, to retain a little scratch for themselves. The heartless bastards.
Of course, the net result of all this deep discounting will be a further erosion of publishers’ already meagre profit margins, so there is something of a cutting-off-one’s-nose-to-spite-one’s-face feeling to all of this.
(via Quillblog)