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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.
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The idea that the price "over the whole line of books" stayed the same (or even possibly went down slightly) is what I consider the anecdotal (actually, I should say irrelevant) claim. The simple fact is that the books that sell the most (hence "Best Seller") increased in in price. It's hard to lend any other numbers very much credence.
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When diluted with the statistics of all the books that we just don't sell very damn many of... the effect of Agency Pricing seems to be far less noticeable."
Well.... duh.