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Old 12-03-2014, 05:04 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht View Post
That wasn't my experience. Back when the DOJ was asking for comments, I went back over all of my ebook purchases (almost entirely from Fictionwise), I found that had I purchased all of the ebooks I had purchased before 4/1/2010 in 2011 or 2012, I would have paid about three times as much. Admittedly, many of my purchases were during sales or with discounts from loyalty programs that were no longer allowed by agency pricing.

On the other hand, some of the publishers finally started selling ebook editions of nearly all of their books in print. I think Macmillan may have been the most egregious hold-out. Their SF/F imprint Tor basically didn't sell ebooks until after agency pricing went into effect.
I went back and compared what I spent per book under agency at Amazon with what I spend per book prior to agency and found that it was slightly less. People tend to forget that Amazon didn't price _all_ ebooks at $9.99, just some best seller type books. Whither an individual spent more or less really just depends on what mix of books they bought.
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