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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The retailers don't have to prove that the customers were hurt. They have to prove that THEY were hurt. Agency did hurt some retailers for sure. Fictionwise (for example) had a way of doing business that worked before agency pricing. After agency pricing, Fictionwise's business model no longer worked and people did not shop there like they used to because people went there because of their business model.
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Fictionwise was already a subsidiary of B&N by then, and B&N had no problems selling Agency ebooks. I think Fictionwise's demise was a corporate decision to rebrand ebook sales under the B&N website, just as Amazon rolled anything Mobipocket under the Kindle branding.