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    News - e-book pricing probe intensifies

    Publishing agreements result in less competitive prices, warns attorney general.
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    Re: News - e-book pricing probe intensifies

    Wow, prompt news and new words ....

    However, other publishers have said agency pricing allows different booksellers to make a profit from selling books, which could otherwise prove unlikely if a couple of the giants were systematically undercutting other retailers, therefore eargiring the model encourages competition.


    Page 2, about three para's up from the end, by the way.

    Seriously though, this makes me wonder how long it'll be before authors start working out that they can sell direct, and that, like musicians with record companies, no longer need to give away a large chunk of the earnings from their work to corporate giants.

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    Re: News - e-book pricing probe intensifies

    I'm just surprised that the publishing corps. have hung on as long as they have, especially given their behaviour as they've become more greedy and rob both their clients and customers as well as digging their heals in against electronic content delivery when that's exactly what the public is asking for, and at the same time as the internet has become more and more accessible, no less.

    The sooner they go bust, the better.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Saracen View Post
    Seriously though, this makes me wonder how long it'll be before authors start working out that they can sell direct, and that, like musicians with record companies, no longer need to give away a large chunk of the earnings from their work to corporate giants.
    Roll on that heaven-sent day then.

    I used to use eReader for a load of eBooks (think I had nearly 100 at one point), then Barnes & Noble took over. Suddenly a lot of the content I like (Dale Brown, Tom Clancy, Star Trek TNG especially Corps of Engineers) became "Only available to subscribers in U.S. and Canada". B&N's FAQ states that this is due to the publishers.

    Last week when I went on the eReader site, it looks like most of the titles had been removed - certainly I managed to find none of the titles I'd previously bought.

    Sad end to what was a good site, not sure whether to blame B&N or the publishers, or a hell-sent combination of the pair...

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