Mike Shatzkin asks this question:
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Can Amazon continue to be relied upon to discount from high publisher suggested retail prices (the basis of high wholesale prices for the retailer), or will Amazon sell more frequently at the publisher’s declared price to “encourage” publishers to cut their suggested retail priceas and therefore bring Amazon’s costs, and publishers margins, down?
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Publishers in the US really need to bring down their list prices to conform with reality. Perhaps the DOJ will force them to agree to this in return for letting agency pricing continue.