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Originally Posted by JD Gumby
Agency pricing does NOT mean the price has to be the same everywhere - just that the publisher gets to set the retail price (unlike with paper books where they sell to the book store at, supposedly, about half the MSRP and then the store is free to set whatever price they want), which can easily differ from store to store and region to region (even when the same currency is used).
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Agency pricing in general, yes.
But back when they instituted agency pricing I remember that I read that both Amazon and Apple had contracts with the publishers that books could not be offered at lower prices anywhere else (at least for the US market). This would mean that the prices at both stores must be the same, of course. I may be mistaken.