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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I think it's will be pretty difficult to prove that the smaller eBook stores went out of business because of agency pricing. For that matter, I think that agency pricing actually would help the smaller ebook stores. With agency pricing, Amazon could no longer be able to undercut the smaller stores.
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The smaller stores often undercut Amazon.
The big problem for the smaller stores is that they didn't get books back from Agency publishers for many months and in that time of not having access to those titles they lost a large portion of their customer base. Some like Diesel never did end up getting titles from all publishers back. Now it can be argued that this isn't Agencies fault per se, but it was a direct result of the reworkings that all stores had to do in order to accommodate being able to sell Agency books (such as sales tax systems to collect for the thousands of different tax venues in the US [state, county, city]). The stores Agency really helped were Kobo and B&N.