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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
No one... since agency pricing quite effectively put the final nail in the coffin of any small or medium-sized ebook retailers who might have stood a chance at garnering even the smallest sliver of the ebook pie.
I find it amusing that a pricing plan devised to keep Amazon from "devaluing" print books helped kill any competition they might have had in the ebook market... not to mention forcing Amazon to make more of a profit at the same time.
In my eyes, agency pricing has hurt everyone except Amazon.
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Try telling that to the "publishers are always right" reactionaries like Turow and his ilk.
Agency pricing is the gift that keeps on giving: while the BPHs and their apologists spend their days and nights dreaming up anti-amazon schemes, the entire industry has changed and continues to change away from their oligarchical control. Things that were unthinkable two years ago not only have come to pass but are actually suceeding.
That is one reason I hope the BPHs don't settle: a year or two of a high visibility legal fight over their practices and dirty linen will keep their attention firmly on the past while the rest of the world continues to evolve beyond their ability to catch up.
With any kind of luck, by the time their hash is settled, they themselves will be a shadow of what they used to be and no longer able to force their schemes on anybody.