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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
So Random House can keep Agency Pricing. I doubt it will because its books will probably be more expensive then the other Publishers.
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I see no reason for Random House to abandon agency pricing for competitive reasons. It is the only publisher of the specific books it publishes and either consumers want to read the book or they don't. It is not as if 3 publishers all publish the same Stephen King novel and have to compete on price.
The only way it would matter is if every book by the other publishers was sold at, say, $10 and RH books were $13. It might not look good for RH even though the books are not interchangeable. But not all of the books published by the other publishers will be sold for $10; pricing will be all over the map, just as it has been in the past.