Comments on: Three Percent #168: The 6% Improvement /College/translation/threepercent/2019/09/04/three-percent-168-the-6-improvement/ a resource for international literature at the URochester Mon, 09 Sep 2019 00:13:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Hoss Firooznia /College/translation/threepercent/2019/09/04/three-percent-168-the-6-improvement/#comment-3652 Mon, 09 Sep 2019 00:13:04 +0000 http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/?p=425302#comment-3652 You’ve undoubtedly seen this already, but CNN and other outlets picked up the story about Amazon shipping “The Testaments” early. Apparently Amazon is apologizing, claiming that the shipment was very limited, due purely to a technical error, that it won’t happen again, etc.

But the question remains: what sort of consequences could Amazon face if it decides to do this again?

Tom mentioned the affidavit he was repeatedly pestered about, and how it’s undoubtedly different from whatever Amazon’s lawyers had to sign. Still, I’m wondering if he could maybe talk a bit about what sort of potential penalties he had to agree to in order to.

Also as you mentioned, fines probably wouldn’t have much effect on a behemoth like Amazon. But what about say, refusing to supply them with new releases until after the official publication date? Could big publishers like PRH do such a thing without committing financial suicide?

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