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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
What about the consumers? Did they "win" too?  |
That one sounds like a (premature) celebration of all the ways they got to screw over consumers.
And it is so blinded by Amazon-hate it attributes to the price fix something that had happened *before* the conspiracy. 30% Amazon losses due to Agency? Baloney! Nook was running well over 20% *before* Agency kicked in.
http://mashable.com/2010/06/29/barnes-and-noble-4q/
From June 2010, reporting 2009 sales:
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Most notably, Barnes & Noble has gained 20% of the e-book market in just the last year, CEO William Lynch revealed in an investor conference this morning.
The Nook is primarily responsible for driving those e-book sales, he added. In a statement yesterday, Chairman Leonard Riggio claimed that customers who have purchased the Nook have increased their overall spending with the company by 17%.
Barnes & Noble's share of the digital market now exceeds its share of the retail book market, Lynch announced.
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Add in Sony, Kobo, and the independents now gone and you get the "magical 30% Amazon is supposed to have lost due to Agency. Truth is Amazon has lost nothing in ebook share since early 2010. (They have, however, *won* a lot in readers and tablets.)
All the added "competitiveness" the BPHs claim to see from the Apple side is coming out of the Nook and indie side of the ledger, not Amazon.