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Originally Posted by advocate2
Without the Agency model Apple would never have been able to gain market share against Amazon.
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Apple has released *no* information about ibookstore sales. The iPad sells like crazy, but there's no indication that they have any notable slice of the ebook market.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Fictionwise sold to B&N AFTER the agency pricing went into effect because there was no way they would have survived.
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B&N
announced their purchase of Fictionwise on March 5, 2009.
Agency ebook pricing
began Apr 1, 2010.
B&N bought Fictionwise (speculation) to get their software (the eReader pdb DRM), access to their ebook supply accounts, and to kill the competition.