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Originally Posted by HarryT
Yes. The major publishers have what's called an "agency agreement" with the bookstores, which means that the stores are acting as their agents, rather than as independent retailers. That means that the publishers dictate the prices.
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Except, of course, that this whole phenomenon of the eBooks being more expensive than the paper books existed in many cases before they started using the agency agreement.
I'm sure the agency agreement "aka price fixing" doesn't help, but the problem is more than just that.