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Originally Posted by CleverClothe
Erm, most people LOVED Amazon's pricing. A very few were afraid that Amazon may jack up prices once they had a monopoly, but most loved what Amazon was doing. The pricing boycotts that you linked to so thoroughly prove that.
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To be clear, I do accept that many people are deeply upset about agency pricing and want it removed.
I also agree that Amazon offered the lowest pricing of the major retailers, that people prefer lower pricing, and that lower prices were one of many factors that gave Amazon a commanding lead for a few years.
So that said, my points to David are:
• I do not agree that windowing offers more positives than negatives, for anyone.
• I do not believe that anyone wants to go back to windowing.
• There was still a lot of discontent about numerous aspects of the market pre-agency.
• There was a great deal of concern over Amazon locking up the ebook market and its actions (DRM, vendor lock-in, author exclusives, privacy issues, monopolistic goals).
Even if you believe that retailer pricing is superior to agency pricing, that does not necessarily prove that the ebook market itself in 2009 was a Garden of Eden, despoiled by the publishers. Pricing is an important component of a healthy market, but far from the whole picture.