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Originally Posted by rhadin
I expect that this is the first step on the road to instituting agency pricing for pbooks....
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It is possible, but I expect paper sales will need to drop significantly before the retailers stomach that change. Perhaps if print on demand can replace most of a retailer's inventory, that might happen.
I'd also expect that one day in the not so distant future, publishers will stop returning books for 100% of the wholesale price. This policy is great for the retailers, but terrible for publishers, highly inefficient for everyone, and results in millions of unsold and subsequently destroyed books.
Perhaps we should take bets on which policy will go first.
