Andrew Wheeler’s “Things Writers Believe”

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Read the whole thing.

This was the part that I didn’t know about:

3: Wal*Mart will demand a higher discount.
Discounts in the US must be offered to all accounts on equal terms, by federal anti-trust law (such as the Robinson-Patman Act of 1936). There was a major lawsuit on that very subject in the 1990s, when the American Booksellers’ Association sued a number of publishers over terms.

That was the only part of his post I didn’t know about, but it makes sense. Check out the rest, though. It’s interesting stuff.