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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
That's ludicrous.
The ability to create their own unique discount systems (Fictionwise's Micropay for instance) was one of the only things that small ebook-only retailers had going for them. They could reward their loyal customers with special discounts to keep them coming back. Agency pricing took that ability away from them (and others like them) and it gutted their business. They simply can't compete selling agency published books anymore without those loyalty discount systems. So they don't sell agency books anymore. So no more talk please of how agency pricing was all unicorns and rainbows for everyone except Amazon. Agency pricing threw a lot of babies out with the bathwater.  |
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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Look publishers, see that wretched creature crawling on the floor? That is the book buying consumer. Why don't you hit him over the head again to finish the job? He is still moving in agony.  |
That's some absurd hyperbole there. Since agency pricing the ebook market has doubled. Those consumers are buying those "overpriced" bestsellers like never before. Frankly it would be difficult to argue that consumers have been hurt all that much by agency pricing.