Day 8, and Guess What?
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Hey, wanna know what those crazy folks at Amazon did last night? They put back the buy buttons on Macmillan print editions.
But no Kindle editions.
Heh.
You know, Amazon, if you would have done this initially, this would be very, very, very different. That would have come across as reasonable, if aggressive. But now? Sorry. Much too late for you to appear reasonable. Now you just are acting spoiled. Stop it. Put the Kindle buy buttons back.
Better yet, be consistent. If you’re going to keep the Macmillan Kindle buy buttons down because Macmillan wants you to embrace the agency model, take down the Hachette Kindle buy buttons too. And better start eyeballing the HarperCollins buy buttons.
Because while that won’t earn you any sympathy - and will probably score you even more ire against you - at least you’d be standing by your “conviction.”
What do you say, Amazon?