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Originally Posted by SeaKing
Have you considered that the doubling of the market increased just because of greater demand, that it might have tripled if the prices were lower?
Quadrupled?
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Heh, I notice that the "piracy doesn't hurt sales" folk resist that argument when content creators argue against piracy. When the same folks put on their "anti-agency pricing" hat, all of a sudden its "we can't prove a one to one loss of sales, but agency priciing does hurt sales".
I agree that agency pricing does hurt sales . That misses the point. The publishers instituted agency pricing above all to prevent Amazon from maintaining their monopoly of the ebook retail market. It did achieve that goal ( Amazon's share of the ebook market dropped from 90 to 60 per cent and other companies became ebook retailers). Thats a legit business objective, gi ven the right circumstances, according to the Supreme Court in a recent case.