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Originally Posted by SensualPoet
And for all the electrons spend railing against agency pricing around the net and here at MR, I've also noticed a lot of agency books priced far below $12.99 to $14.99. All that agency pricing seems to be doing is "windowing" new releases; a lot of back title material is priced as you might expect and almost everything is lower than hard cover, trade or mass paper, depending what's actually in print for a specific title.
I frankly don't blame publishers for trying to get a premium for new stuff because some people (and lots of people: that's what makes the books bestsellers); I just choose to read something else in the meantime.
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I don't blame them for the premium on new releases, either.
I don't think agency is only affecting that window, though. I had a bunch of backlist Random House books in my ereader IQ price watch list that were $5-7 when i put them on, and when they went to agency, they jumped, sometimes over $10.
I haven't seen a drop in any since then. Not that none of their books have - just none on my list. So it's hard for me to be cool that they went agency on us.
