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Originally Posted by HarryT
But they aren't, Mike; that's the point. With "agency pricing", the retailer is NOT free to set the price; the price is set by the publisher, and the retailer is not permitted to discount it.
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
How is it not the same? The agency agreement forces all retailers to sell any particular ebook at the retail price set by the publisher of that ebook.
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Fair comments. What I was trying to say to the original poster was that he was not forced to buy any particular book from Amazon in Kindle format. If a publisher requires Amazon to sell a particular Kindle book at a fixed price, that doesn't bind other ebook retailers, and it doesn't prevent a purchaser buying it in a different format.
Or does it? I thought the agency model was between Amazon and the large publishers. Are you saying that it allows the publisher to fix the price for
all retailers in
all ebook formats? By all means, correct me if I have misunderstood.