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scrapking · 03-31-2012, 02:54 AM

It's widely stated that the agency model weakened Amazon's marketshare. I'm not sure this was a primary mover of that. Most of Amazon's lost marketshare seems to have been driven by:

- brick-and-mortar counterattacks (Nook pushing into the #2 spot in the U.S. thanks to B&N, Kobo becoming #1 in Canada on the retail strength of Chapters/Indigo, etc.), and

- device alternatives (iBooks' success was device driven, not agency driven, IMO).

Michael Serbinis of Kobo argued more passionately and persuasively against the agency model than anyone else I read on the subject (those editorials still available on Kobo's blog), so they didn't seem to see anythiing positive for them in agency.

03-31-2012, 02:54 AM	#7
scrapking Evangelist Posts: 467 Karma: 1073260 Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Victoria, BC Device: Kobo Vox, Kobo Glo	It's widely stated that the agency model weakened Amazon's marketshare. I'm not sure this was a primary mover of that. Most of Amazon's lost marketshare seems to have been driven by: - brick-and-mortar counterattacks (Nook pushing into the #2 spot in the U.S. thanks to B&N, Kobo becoming #1 in Canada on the retail strength of Chapters/Indigo, etc.), and - device alternatives (iBooks' success was device driven, not agency driven, IMO). Michael Serbinis of Kobo argued more passionately and persuasively against the agency model than anyone else I read on the subject (those editorials still available on Kobo's blog), so they didn't seem to see anythiing positive for them in agency.