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Originally Posted by fjtorres
People forget that.
April through June 2010.
(Amazon wanted MFN, like Apple... They got it.)
Random House made a killing that spring: no agency, no Penguin...
Amazon sales were booming before, they kept on booming.
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I'm pretty sure that what Penguin did had nothing to do with how Random House did as a publishing house. For one thing, only 150 Penguin titles were effected by the dispute. Penguin was very much a late comer to the ebooks market.
Basically, Penguin stopped providing ebook versions of their new books to Amazon and Amazon retaliated by pricing the new Penguin hardbacks at $9.99 rather than the normal price.