http://paidcontent.org/2012/03/09/419-publisher-says-kindle-nook-users-must-accept-att-style-arbitration/ The economics of digital content Tue, 21 May 2013 22:14:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://paidcontent.org/2012/03/09/419-publisher-says-kindle-nook-users-must-accept-att-style-arbitration/#comment-94434 Wed, 02 May 2012 14:49:37 +0000 http://gostage.paidcontent.org/419-publisher-says-kindle-nook-users-must-accept-att-style-arbitration/#comment-94434 Penguin just keeps proving how little regard they have for their customers. The final straw for me was when they pulled all of their ebooks from libraries.

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2012/03/09/419-publisher-says-kindle-nook-users-must-accept-att-style-arbitration/#comment-88094 Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:13:43 +0000 http://gostage.paidcontent.org/419-publisher-says-kindle-nook-users-must-accept-att-style-arbitration/#comment-88094 What a strange time to make this claim. In a legitimate principal-agency relationship, the principal–e.g., Penguin–is expected to assume at least some risk, since technically it is directly selling (or licensing) the product to the consumer through an agent. By attempting to seek full protection behind its agents’ terms of service, it seems to me Penguin is tacitly admitting that this isn’t a true agency relationship–which in turn bolsters the argument that the publisher is misusing an agency relationship to fix prices.

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2012/03/09/419-publisher-says-kindle-nook-users-must-accept-att-style-arbitration/#comment-88093 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:52:46 +0000 http://gostage.paidcontent.org/419-publisher-says-kindle-nook-users-must-accept-att-style-arbitration/#comment-88093 If I bought any eBooks from Penguin, since they started being the seller of their eBooks, then any agreement I have with Amazon or Barnes & Noble, would not be with Penguin. They cut themselves out of any agreement I had with Amazon, when they made this new arrangement in 2010. Since they price their own eBooks, then they are the seller & any contract I may have or had with Amazon or B&N is void when it comes to the publisher’s that in affect, became the new seller. They did not make any new contract after they made this arrangement.

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