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Why don't the publishers make it easy to buy books from them, instead of all this rigamarole about rights and regions? I want to go to your website, pay with a
by chris_mahan 12y ago
Why don't the publishers make it easy to buy books from them, instead of all this rigamarole about rights and regions? I want to go to your website, pay with a credit card, and you ship it to me, anywhere in the world, and fast.
No, instead, I go to a local bookstore, they don't have it.
I go to Amazon, they have it. I order it, two days later it's at my door, for 30% off the price on the back of the book.
So everybody does the same as me, and now Amazon is the 800-lbs gorilla in the room, throwing its weight around, and you're complaining?
You had the opportunity, 10 years ago, to kill Amazon, and you didn't, because you wanted to keep charging us more for less service.
Tough.
- jrockway 12y agoThis is a great way of putting it. Their business doesn't need a middleman. They added a middleman. Now they don't like the middleman. The tears, they just aren't coming.
- dap 12y ago... and since many people did the same thing, and many of the local bookstores have closed (particularly those with large selections), Amazon effectively has considerable influence over what kinds of things most of us read. Tough indeed. For us.