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Originally Posted by joehunt
So in brief, the publishers are still dictating discounts  |
The restriction [for the new Agency 2.0 publishers] is only that a retailer cannot take a net loss across all of a publisher's titles. As long as the time window that is measured across isn't too small, that doesn't seem particularly limiting. All it does is stop someone buying market share by running at a loss.
[The MacMillan restrictions are much more onerous.]
Isn't this Agency 2.0 essentially what was discussed during the earlier settlement discussions?