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it's simple, people, myself included are far more comfortable knowing the retailer has control over prices. We won't see sales like Amazon's buy-3-get-1-free for print books with the Agency model. And while the sheeple will just buy at whatever price eventually even they will realize there are never any sales on ebooks despite the ability to sell the book forever without the associated distribution and cost of physical goods.
And lets not get into that tired argument over server storage and whatever since one server can probably handle the entire library of Kindle books. For the hyperbole impaired I exaggerated from the practical taking things to the absurd minimum to add some perspective on the requirements.
The lack of the ability for the retailer, who knows their customers better than anyone, to run sales when traditionally sales slow down is where the whole agency model as in place for the books really lets the consumer down from traditional expectations from a retail buying perspective.
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