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Shatzkin is implying that without agency pricing, publishers or retailers will be experimenting with $3-5 ebooks, which would directly compete with the $1-3 self-pub market, and this would knock indie authors out of the marketplace, because we all know that they couldn't possibly compete on the basis of quality writing. Everyone knows $3 ebooks by "unknown" authors only sell because they're not offered on equivalent terms with "popular" (read: BPH) authors.
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(Shrug) If you read the comments, you'll find that indie authors , who are in the field and whose business it is to know these things, agree with Mr. Shatzkin that ebooks by name brand authors will push out indies if the prices are sharply reduced. I have to think that they know their business better than an interested bystander.