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Originally Posted by JSWolf
But the reason to shop at some of the smaller stores was because of the way they did business before agency. Take fictionwise, they had their buywise club and they did things like buy certain books on this list and we'll give you the price back in store credit. This was a model that was rather successful and one that Amazon did not have. I bought from Fictionwise. But after agency, Fictionwise became nothing special. Also, with BooksOnBoard, they allowed discount codes and they gave you store credit back on a number of eBooks. So eventually, you'd have enough credit to get discounted or even free eBooks. After agency, no way. So yes, being just another generic store with nothing to distinguish them was not in their best interests. They did things to differentiate them from places like Amazon and agency took that away.
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Does agency take away store credits? Perhaps I'm not understanding what you are saying, but if a store said "you buy this book and we will give you back the price in store credits" then I don't think that would violate the agency contract. You still have to pay the price for the book, you just get store credits to spend on another book. I'm sure it depends on how exactly the contract is written, but on it's face, I don't see it being an issue.