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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
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.
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I think it was a combo of the two. Yes, FW was owned by B&N, but at the time it was still run separately and just like the other independent stores they lost customers when they were unable to sell big 5 books for a long time due to the Agency contract process which kept the books out of their stores (some never got all of them back). I'd guess that just made the decision easier for B&N to close it down.