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Old 08-08-2010, 04:54 PM   #18
Ben Thornton
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The rumours that I remember from that time were that Amazon was making a loss on the 9.99 titles in order to build a business, and that Apple neither wanted to stand that same loss, nor to be more expensive than their competitor - and so cooked up the agency model with the publishers. I have no idea whether this is true, but I remember reading it.
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