Rhadin - I have asked Mark Coker if the coupons effect the amazon price. I still do not think it will, but I will await his answer.
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Originally Posted by murraypaul
Duh! That is what agency pricing means.
If you think something is wrong, you don't change your mind just because someone nice is doing it.
What I don't understand is how people can support this, but not Agency pricing, as it is exactly the same thing.
Not even going to bother with that.
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There's more to agency pricing than that. The
publisher sets the pricing in the Agency model, Smashwords is the distributor. Agency pricing also has the book price "fluctuate" according to demand (in quotation marks because the pricing isn't fluctuating like they said it would).
And yes, I will continue to support Smashwords because they are "nice." I did not like the Agency Pricing model from the Big Five because I was getting ripped off. I am not getting ripped off in the smashwords scenario. The max I lost was .25 off a book I was going to buy from Sony that was $4.99 on smashwords. What am I going to do, scream "OH MY GOD THEY TOOK MY TWENTY FIVE CENT DISCOUNT THE BASTARDS ZOMG@!!!!" No. Yell "How dare they let indie authors make more money????" No.