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Originally Posted by JoeD
Had a quick google to see if I could find anything to backup the claim and turned up this post by amazon.
You may be skeptical about what Amazon state, however, if what Amazon says is false, it would be a trivial matter for the affected publishers to show otherwise.
Also, just noticed Elfwreck's post, that's additional evidence of agency pricing impacting sales from the people who perhaps care the most about it and have the most to lose. |
Even if Amazon' statement is true, what matters to the authors is not unit SALES but total amount of ROYALTIES earned. If the total royalties are higher, authors are happy no matter what the sales.
With agency pricing, publishers get to charge what they consider to be the market price for premium content. If it were not the market price, then you would see a fall off in sales for premium content- or at least slow growth in sales. What we see are rapidly rising sales. Sorry, but them's the facts.