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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
While it's a subtle distinction, I would argue that Agency Pricing is the ability of the publisher to dictate what price someone else has to sell their product for. I also would exclude the author from your definition.
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Agency pricing prohibits a reseller from discounting the book. So if, for example, the books are sold in the Amazon bookstore, it would be agency pricing if the price was set by the publisher, and not by Amazon. If, however, the publisher were to sell directly to the end-user in Kindle format, then you're right - it wouldn't be agency pricing because there's no "agent" involved in the process.