Some people seem to take as an article of faith that an end to agency is in Amazon's best interests and will hurt competition. If that's the case (I'm not saying it is, but for the sake of argument), I'd like to see agency supporters within this industry discuss this Kobo blog post from February 2010:
http://blog.kobobooks.com/when-publi...with-pictures/
I haven't heard any suggestion that Kobo's changed their tune on agency since.