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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
The discussion about the change in prices depends on the segment of books in question. The prices for bestsellers were increased, but readers turned to indie books which are cheaper so while the average price of a bestseller went up, the average price being paid if you consider all the books, not just bestsellers went down.
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That's a really interesting point and probably how Apple's lawyers will try to spin things. The way I would view it is that while the OVERALL market price paid went down, that was due to a shift in the market, which you could claim was caused at least in part by Apple/agency pricing. But if you look at apples (not the company
) to apples, the actual price of most books either stayed the same (I assume indie prices didn't drop but stayed the same) or, in real price paid, went up (most agency priced books).