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Originally Posted by MikeB1972
BooksOnBoard lost all agency titles because all contracts had to be renegotiated with the switch to agency (Took a good 3 months for BOB to get them back on the site).
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There were also tax-law considerations and accounting issues because agency "commissions" are tracked and taxed differently across the 5000 different local tax regimes in the US. For the big boys the added costs were, if not trivial, certainly manageable but those added fixed costs were...unwelcome...at smaller vendors...
The conspiracy allowed the bigger, walled-garden, ebook vendors effective exclusivity on BPH titles for several months during 2010, thus shifting sales away from the smaller, generic-epub vendors.