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Originally Posted by abookreader
I wish I could have logged on this morning and seen a major blow to Agency pricing. That would have been fun.
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In the absence of agency pricing, there is a return to wholesale pricing, which is almost agency pricing anyway.
The one thing that hasn't really been factually demonstrated is whether once you go past the heavily discounted bestsellers, which were few in number, did agency pricing really change the pricing dynamic? I know that anecdotally there has been a claim that pricing went up and that people can point to a few books where that was true, but I'm asking about pricing over the line of books.
I don't buy the "bestsellers" that were the subject of Amazon's $9.99 pricing scheme, and of the books that I do buy, my experience has been that some were up a little in price and others were down a little in price but that on average there was really no change. I wonder what the true pricing facts are.