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Originally Posted by cfrizz
Jon, FW started going downhill long before the agency debacle took place. FW stopped selling agency books before any of us ever heard of it taking place. B&N didn't want the competition from FW especially since FW prices were a lot better than B&N.
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IIRC, FW stopped dealing with one of the ebook distributors (Lightning?) about 6 months before the debacle, and might have lost one or two of the agency publishers because of it, but I know I purchased ebooks from Penguin and Macmillan subsidiaries in March 2010 at FW. By time of the debacle, the Nook had been released, and it's clear that B&N was trying to push FW customers to B&N, and the agency pricing gave them the excuse they needed to drop the publishers at FW. FW didn't stop selling Random House until they implemented agency pricing a year later. I suspect that the majority of Nook owners bought their Nook for the OTA/Wifi purchasing, and had never bought anything at FW before or after their Nook purchase, and probably wouldn't have bought from FW because of the sideloading requirement even if it were cheaper.