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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The agency model would never have worked if just one of the BPHs did it first. The customers would just shop elsewhere. The others would see this and not go agency. So in this case, it did have to be all or nothing and the all is what is illegal.
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Customers would not have shopped elsewhere. If Stephen King's novel is agency priced and someone wanted to read it, they would pay the agency price and not think twice about whether the book was agency priced.
The reading and spending habits of individual MR members, as much as we might like to project them to all buyers, are often atypical of the vast majority of bookbuyers. And as much as we often like to disdain what others do, we should not forget that we are a small group in the bookbuying world and even among ourselves do not have uniform habits or beliefs when it comes to agency pricing or Amazon.