[leebase]

Anyone notice that the ebook world hasn't ended? Hasn't stopped growing explosively in fact?

Why should it have ended? Well, due to Agency Pricing, of course. Due to Agency pricing, all competition would be removed from ebooks. 5 of the 6 biggest publishers were joined a year later by the largest publisher.

So, all competition has ended. Everyone now pays $15 per ebook.

Somehow, according to many folks on this board, people that think $13-15 is too much for an ebook are -- shockingly -- simply not buying those books. Apparently, there are plenty of other books folks have switched too.

Apple -- evil for being the stick that the publishers used to get Amazon to cave -- has made next to no impact. Rather B&N has come on strong -- but Amazon sits exactly where it was before. On top of the heap with most of the market. Amazon even sells more ebooks for the iPad than Apple does.

There is quite a bit of buzz that millions of books can be sold if you price them from $1 to $3...and we have a few stars coming out of this market already.

From all appearances...the Agency book publishers keep putting out their books. There appears to be a market for their pricing despite the protests. For those so utterly opposed to the price level -- doesn't appear they have given up reading or given in to the prices. Apparently, there are publishers and authors aplenty supplying cheaper books.

Life continues on.

Lee