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Originally Posted by Fbone

Publishers Weekly has an article about BoB including quotes from owner Bob LiVolsi. Basically, he's looking for investors.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/b....html#comments

Livolsi has been critical of how the switch to the agency pricing model was implemented from the beginning and voiced complaints that it was organized strictly to benefit the big retail players and “devastated,” independent e-book sellers.

Interesting that he says it was organized to benefit the big players when the participating publishers claimed that it was aimed at keeping a level field so that the smaller bookstores could keep in business: keeping the big players with a larger margin from undercutting the smaller ones with a tighter margin.

I agree the agency model hurt the consumer in the end and even with the supposed "demise" of the agency model, I'm not seeing much improvement yet.