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Why Amazon Can Toy With Book Publishers

27
May
2014

Amazon, the largest bookseller in the world, wields immense control over publishers. And right now its busy flexing its huge muscle in a very public battle with the publishing house Hachette, refusing even to take preorders for some books from the publisher. The reason? Amazon reportedly wants a better deal on e-book prices. The New York Times David Streitfeld summed up Amazons brawn in a recent blog post. No company in American history has exerted the control over the American book market — physical, digital and secondhand — that Amazon does, Streitfeld wrote. …

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