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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Fictionwise was not part of B&N when agency pricing went into effect.
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Sorry but no.
B&N bought Fictionwise outright before launching Nook.
http://www.barnesandnobleinc.com/pre...ctionwise.html
They kept operating independently (and successfully) until the conspiracy, when B&N decided not to negotiate Agency agreements for Fictionwise to shift their market share to Nook.
Of course, not all Fictionewise business was epub-based so those customers went to... well, Amazon and Alf...
So it can be fairly said that agency killed Fictionwise but not that it forced their sale.
