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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The thing is, with a pBook, I can get discounts and sales. I cannot with agency eBooks. So if the eBook and pBook are priced similar enough, I can get the pBook for less.
I know the agency publishers did this so Amazon could not discount any of their eBooks. But that does make it unfair for the eBook buyer.
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The point of agency pricing is that the publisher , not the retailer(particularly Amazon), has the power to set the price- and discount the price, if the publisher wishes . Lots of the Kindle Daily Deals and NOOK Daily Finds are agency priced books which the publisher discounts as part of a promotion . Joe Abercrombie's Book " The Herooes" , Which I purchased for $11.99 in February, was recently a Kindle Daily Deal for $0.99 (Much to my chagrin
).
That's an example of the possibility of buying an agency priced book at a deep discount.