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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
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
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Actually agency pricing doesn't preclude different prices at different stores. Agency simply says that the publishers set the price, not the resellers. The various resellers would need to include a most favored nations clause to make sure that the books were not sold for less elsewhere.