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Originally Posted by JSWolf
But Fictionwise was run as it's own business.
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That's not what the business development manager of Astek, who seemed to have inside knowledge, was writing on this board at the time:
They got purchased by Barnes and Noble and the lawyers and bean counters have ruined a good company.
You yourself, on June 15, 2010, noted that Fictionwise, in the Nook era, before Random House agency, failed to deeply discount Random House titles, even though, at that time, it could have:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...9&postcount=17
And then, to the distress of at least one poster here, Fictionwise stopped selling magazine subscriptions:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...9&postcount=28
The magazines mentioned on the June 2010 thread are all ones that come from this non-big-five periodical publishers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Magazines
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Originally Posted by Purple Lady
When the publishers went agency, it cancelled all existing contracts.
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Could be. But I haven't come across evidence that such contracts existed. Do you have a cite on this?