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Originally Posted by Josieb1
I'm not informed on all this but I just don't understand why Amazon doesn't let Hachette do what it wants and let the readers decide.
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Because if Amazon determines through monitoring of their customers, i.e. how many customer click on a book link but don't buy, how many have that book on their wish list and don't buy and for how long, ect that they would make more profit overall on that title by selling at a lower price, the Agency contact would prevent that. Amazon is very good at finding the price that generates the most income for the items they sell. Agency type contacts interfere with their business and hurt both their profits and the authors' and publishers' profits.