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Originally Posted by pwalker8
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.
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It doesn't take away store credits, but you weren't allowed to use store credits on agency books and you weren't allowed to be granted them by buying an agency book. That was treated the same as discounting which wasn't allowed. They weren't exactly store credits though and that's why you couldn't use them.
I also remember the small stores lost their contracts with agency publishers so agency books couldn't be sold there for a few months or so. It's very difficult to stay in business if you can't sell popular books.