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Originally Posted by stonetools
Well, Amazon was engaging in predatory pricing of ebooks so as to establish a monopoly in the eBook retail market. That's a bit different from just being a more efficient retailer.
That's what the publishers were pushing back against. Now of course, most folk here would like to just skip over Amazon's behavior and pretend that wasn't happening, but this is the publishers' stated reason for moving to the agency model.
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That, of course, is not true. If that was all the publishers would care about (avoid predatory pricing), they could have had other ways. Not by pushing the ebook price way over the regularly discounted paperback price.