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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Why would I argue to the contrary? I'm just pointing out that there is some justification to the publishers' worry that Amazon's use of the $10 best seller was going to break the publishers business model.
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Amazon could afford the price (on a limited number of books) because it got a better deal from the publishers than other retailers. It used the better deal to pass the savings to the customers which increased its market share, to the point where the publishers could no longer afford to say 'take it or live it'.
But this didn't break the business model. The move to agency pricing broke the publishers' business model.