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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I did say many, not all. Small indie booksellers, both paper and ebook come and go. Of the two that are specifically mentioned, one was bought out in 2009, the other went out of business in 2013. Agency pricing didn't actually hit the streets until late 2010. It was revoked in 2012. It didn't come back until the Amazon/Hatchette deal in 2014.
I suspect that closer inspection would show that agency was more a convenient excuse than a real reason. Most small bookstores have a very narrow margin of profit. The number one reason small businesses go under is under capitalization, i.e. they simply don't have enough cash on hand to weather a downturn. Fictionwise was purchased by B&N back in 2009 and eventually shutdown by B&N. It's pretty likely that B&N planned to fold the Fictionwise customer base into the B&N store from the beginning.
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I guess I'll just have to trust that you know their business better than the owners did
