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'Who sells in a marketplace where someone else sets your price for you automatically without your approval?' Most people who sell products do. You sell at you
by illumen 15y ago
'Who sells in a marketplace where someone else sets your price for you automatically without your approval?'
Most people who sell products do. You sell at your wholesale price, and the retailer sets the retail price.
- _delirium 15y agoTrue, but the tricky part here is that Amazon got to set the wholesale price, too. Larger publishers have negotiated fixed wholesale prices (against Amazon's attempt to push back), but self-published eBook authors get a percentage of the retail price, so when Amazon varies the retail price, the wholesale price varies accordingly.
- feralchimp 15y ago(To split a maybe-relevant hair) in a purely royalty-based resale model, with no pre-negotiated minimums, there is no wholesale price. There is only the retail price, and revenue flow per the royalty calculation. Amazon clearly believes: - the cost/benefit for this guy to sue doesn't work out in his favor - no (or an insignificant number of) other authors will pull their content in an attempt to negotiate a change in the contract terms Sucks.