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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
With paper, the retailer pays up front for the books, stores them, transports them.
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Actually, no. Transport and storage, yes, but there's usually no upfront payment involved. Unsold books are routinely stripped of their covers and destroyed (only the covers are shipped back to the publisher as proof of destruction). Only then are accounts finally settled.
Either way I don't see how that's an argument in favor of allowing publishers to set binding retail prices for third parties.
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It's a valuable process, and retailers ought to be compensated for it.
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What kind of spurious argument is that? Nobody said they shouldn't.
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... some, but not all, prices are higher.
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Please give an example of agency pricing leading to lower cost for the consumer.
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The reason why I said partly based on reality is that if you look at agency priced books that are a year old, quite a few have gone down from an initially higher price of $14 to $10.
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And that's
because of agency pricing, you say?
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Most people have no clue and do not care how the prices are set.
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Well, I do; both know and care, that is.