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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
The problem is, you aren't entitled to the discount. It's an option chosen by the retailer for competitive reasons, and the retailer is free to stop offering it at any time. If the retailer thinks they can, they'd much rather sell at full retail price. They make more money that way.
The discount offered by the retailer comes out of the retailer's margin. The retailer is choosing to accept less profit on any individual sale in the hopes of generating more overall sales, and more sales of other things not discounted.
The publishers in this case aren't not allowing discounts. They are changing the terms on which they do business with retailers. The retailer can still offer a discount, but they have a lower margin to play with, and can't offer discounts as deep and make money.
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Isn't that exactly what the Agency agreement is, a requirement that the price is fixed by the publisher and not lowered by the retailer?
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The publishers are free to set the terms at which they'll sell to the retailer, and those terms may result in higher prices to you.
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Until and unless it is found to be unlawful. In the UK I can't see how they can get away with exactly what they were forced to stop doing for pBooks.