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It's not just that they have no incentive to pass on the savings, they actively do not want ebooks to become popular -- they've stated this outright at various
by mkozlows 11y ago
It's not just that they have no incentive to pass on the savings, they actively do not want ebooks to become popular -- they've stated this outright at various points in their battles with Amazon, that their goal with ebook pricing/policies is to preserve their print business as much as possible, as they believe that's totally key to their future success.
- Turing_Machine 11y agoYes, pretty much like Kodak, which invented the digital camera, trying to kill it off/keep it expensive so it didn't cut into film sales. How did that work out for them?
- fsck--off 11y agoThere was an interesting comment here about Kodak several months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8978909 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8978909