[bgalbrecht]

The sales I got at Fictionwise allowed me to buy most of my books at about 25% of the price after the agency pricing went in. After agency pricing went in, a lot more books, especially backlist became available as ebooks, especially from publishers that were refusing to do ebooks, like Macmillan. I think since the lawsuit settlements, there have been a lot more sales, and I've been able get more books at price points comparable to used pbook prices.

While I think the publishers partially won, because they still have more control over prices than before 2010, they also lost because their insistence on DRM only served to reinforce Amazon's monopoly. I wonder if Macmillan's dropping DRM (at least at their Tor subsidiary) has affected the sales ratio, or if it's just too late now.

Also, I think the article is wrong in claiming that Amazon was selling all new hardcovers at a $9.99 price point during the wholesale pricing era. I recall they were only doing that for the NYT Best Seller list books, and the rest were selling at or above cost.