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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
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.
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Well, if so they got that one wrong. Amazon went from 0 to domination of the UK market.
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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.
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They shouldn't.
I'm not in favour of the Agency agreements, I said they were most likely illegal as soon as they were put in place, and it seems to have taken a very long time for that rather obvious fact to have been acknowledged.
I just think that an obvious result is going to be that Amazon go back to offering lower prices than everyone else, and increase their market share further.
As someone who buys all their books from Amazon anyway, that's fine by me.
But I don't see how this can be good news for the B&Ns, Kobo and Waterstones of the world, who how have to actually compete in a free market, rather than be cushioned from competition.