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Originally Posted by Lemurion
The big change here is that Amazon no longer determines the price of all eBooks (which is what was effectively happening before), now each publisher determines the price of their own eBooks.
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Yes, but the problem is that the publishers are not good a retail - even if by "good" you mean maximizing overall profit for the publisher. Publishers obviously are about maximizing profit, but they have a short term view and want to maximize profit over all media (I think they are failing at this goal, but we will never know unless one or more Agency publisher get so bad at this that they go bankrupt). Amazon has a long term view and wants to promote ebooks.
I don't boycott Agency publishers, but I don't buy when they play their stupid games of pricing ebooks more than an available paperback, or pricing ebook bundles at exactly the same total price as the individual ebooks it contains, or pricing a brand new author's first ebook at $14.99.