"and to agree not to sell their books anywhere else for a lower price" is illegal restaint of trade and will get you busted by the feds (when they are doing their jobs)
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Josh Smift <[email protected]> wrote: > My point is that (I suspect) people aren't unhappy about this because it > seems unfair per se, but because it's a change. > > Imagine if B&N allowed indie publishers to set up tables in their stores, > and sell their books there, but required them to give the store a 30% cut, > and to agree not to sell their books anywhere else for a lower price. That > doesn't seem unfair at all -- but if they announced this as a new policy, > after previously allowing indie publishers to set up tables for free, not > charging anything, and allowing them to sell wherever else they wanted > without restrictions, it would seem like a big change for the worse. > > -Josh ([email protected]) > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
