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It's not just drm either, agency pricing means there's no longer a point in shopping around, so you may as well go for the store with the best eco system which at this time imho is amazon and the kindle. Agency pricing in a way is pushing more people to amazon making them even stronger in the market which will eventually lead to authors going direct via amazon and in turn put amazon in a position to drop book prices once more. Which is what agency pricing was aimed at avoiding.
Quite amusing really, publishers have a golden oppertunity with digital publishing to cut out the middle man, but instead they.ve made all the moves that could lead to them been the ones that are cut out (well not quite, i'm sure they'll wise up just before it's too late)
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