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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
And Barnes & Noble is US$13.99 for the eBook. And kobo, without a coupon code, is $19.99.
Agency pricing would mean that every legitimate seller in the same country charged the same. This example thus isn't agency pricing, but competitive pricing of a new release. And competition has, in this particular instance, arguably resulted in higher pricing than for comparable titles (look for other short, well-reviewed, memoirs) from agency publishers.
Does retail price maintenance AKA agency pricing mean long-term higher prices for goods of the same or lower quality? I wonder whether anyone really knows.
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Back in the 2010-2014 days of agency pricing, I still saw cases of the big 5/6 publishers selling ebooks cheaper at Amazon than at their competitors. I don't know how or why that happened, if it was Amazon-only sales, or maybe the other retailers didn't have flexible enough storefronts to manage the short term sales, and either just didn't bother to do the sale, or didn't have the resources to keep up with the publishers