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Old 03-30-2016, 04:50 AM   #248
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
They didn't, as far as I'm concerned. They just put their prices back to where they were during the first (conspiracy) agency period, and where they were before the Amazon $9.99 period. Don't get me wrong... I dislike agency pricing as a concept intensely, but the prices seen during the first (and current) agency period are very similar to what early-adopter ebook buyers were already used to paying before Amazon instituted the $9.99 bestseller.
That does seem to be what has happened. But I think the first period of agency had similar motivations prompted of course by the $9.99 period. It is also interesting that the supply of ebooks has exploded without a correspondingly large increase in demand. One would expect prices to come down in those circumstances.
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