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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Once again, recheck your timeline. Many of those popular ebook sites had either already closed or had been bought out before agency pricing became a thing. Those sites were harmed a lot more by Amazon's loss leaders than they were by the publishers.
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I meant to address this earlier, but I was at work.
Indie E-Book Retailer Books On Board Halts E-book Sales - Livolsi has been critical of how the switch to the agency pricing model was implemented from the beginning and voiced complaints that it was organized strictly to benefit the big retail players and “devastated,” independent e-book sellers.
Indie ebooktailers and the Agency Model: Where Are They Now? - It’s ironic that the publishers who were going to level the playing field amongst retailers pretty much now only have their titles available on B&N and Amazon.
RIP Fictionwise? - Looks like Fictionwise is becoming more obsolete by the day. During the spring they discontinued their membership program in the face of the agency pricing changes.