Can of worms! Amazon had to stop it's practice of selling every book on the NY Times best seller list for $9.99 when the agency rules took hold. Now Amazon can not deviate in anyway from the price set by the publisher, (for agency-six books). Retailers cannot bundle agency-six books with other non-agency books and offer a discount. The online retailer Fictionwise.com built an entire store around bundling and discounting books. The agency-six rules pretty much destroyed the Fictionwise business model.
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