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Originally Posted by carld
But the PUBLISHERS couldn't have forced through agency pricing without Apple's collusion. And I dispute the idea that it lowered the Kindle's price. Amazon has always maintained the Kindle and Kindle store as separate entities, each one has to turn their own profit, and one does not affect the other.
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The publishers didn't need Apple, they were prepared to not ship ebooks at the same time as the hard backs. Since Apple went with the agency model, Amazon decided to do so rather than let apple have months and months to sell the latest books when Amazon couldn't.
Lee