I'm not following your argument for B&N doing anything similar for what Amazon did. B&N's dispute with DC was over that very product line, and it was in fact acting to oppose an exclusivity deal. True, authors and artists *are* hurt by these events, which they have zero control over, but I'd say the situation is very different from the dispute with Amazon. Would you have had similar objections to B&N's decision, if instead of this being about ebooks, DC announced it was going to sell books to Amazon at an additional 20% discount?
My argument is that in a dispute over ebooks, B&N is pulling print books from sale. This punishes the print authors, who have no role in the ebook dispute, and have no leverage to effect a solution even if they wanted to. Much as Amazon did to Macmillan authors during the ebooks pricing kerfuffle 18 months ago. Or am I misunderstanding your question?
No misunderstanding on your part. Is there any on mine? My impression of the Amazon/Macmillan debacle was that Amazon pulled from sale all books published by Macmillan, irrespective of whether these were offered -- or planned to be offered -- as ebooks. Based on the linked blog post, this isn't the case in the DC/B&N kerfuffle, as B&N is pulling the very same books whose ebook versions DC is offering exclusively via Kindle
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Hmm. I don't think I disagree with any of your points, but remember, I have an author-focused perspective, being an author and all. And even taking everything you say into account, the net result is authors being denied print sales in a situation where they have no power or control. Honestly, I understand why B&N is doing this, it just stinks to be an author.
(And speaking as only a slightly informed observer, I suspect DC's toy and movie rights are worth a lot more than their print rights, simply because of the economies of scale, but those rights wouldn't exist for DC without the print engine to establish the characters. Though as I understand it, Marvel has done much better in Hollywood than DC.)
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(And speaking as only a slightly informed observer, I suspect DC's toy and movie rights are worth a lot more than their print rights, simply because of the economies of scale, but those rights wouldn't exist for DC without the print engine to establish the characters. Though as I understand it, Marvel has done much better in Hollywood than DC.)
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