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Originally Posted by murraypaul
I just know the reality of the UK market prior to the Agency agreements, which was that Amazon UK was consistently cheaper than Waterstones, the leading ePub seller. Waterstones either couldn't, or wouldn't, match Amazon's prices.
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And that was their business choice. Maybe they were willing to bank on there being more EPub readers and those users not knowing how to strip DRM and convert so they would not buy from Amazon.
Why should Amazon, and its users, be punished because other businesses were not willing to match Amazon's prices? I know why those businesses welcomed Agency Pricing, it allowed them to be priced the same as Amazon without having to explain to their users why they were not. So yes, it leveled the playing field but that ignores the fact that they had oppertunities to level the playing field themselves and choose not to.