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pwalker8 · 12-20-2014, 09:03 PM

Boy, some of you really, really need to go back and refresh your narratives to match the facts on the ground.

1) The publishers were the ones who wanted Agency pricing, not Apple. Apple originally suggested a tiered pricing structure.

2) At the time of the negotiations, the Apple iBook store did not exists. Thus, there was no "price advantage that their larger competitors were using to hurt Apple" because Apple wasn't even in that line of business yet.

3) Once Apple entered the market, Amazon went from 90 % of the market, to 60 % of the market.

I'm waiting for some of you to start talking about Apple's Black Helicopters. Geeze.

12-20-2014, 09:03 PM	#96
pwalker8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,196 Karma: 70314280 Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Atlanta, GA Device: iPad Pro, iPad mini, Kobo Aura, Amazon paperwhite, Sony PRS-T2	Boy, some of you really, really need to go back and refresh your narratives to match the facts on the ground. 1) The publishers were the ones who wanted Agency pricing, not Apple. Apple originally suggested a tiered pricing structure. 2) At the time of the negotiations, the Apple iBook store did not exists. Thus, there was no "price advantage that their larger competitors were using to hurt Apple" because Apple wasn't even in that line of business yet. 3) Once Apple entered the market, Amazon went from 90 % of the market, to 60 % of the market. I'm waiting for some of you to start talking about Apple's Black Helicopters. Geeze.