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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Diesel and BooksOnBoard filed because the publishers and Apple have deep pockets. The suit didn't go well for Diesel or booksOnBoard. The courts found that the publishers caused no injury to either company. If they couldn't get Cote to agree with them, they must have had a real weak case.
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Having a legal case against Apple and the publishers, and agency pricing being a huge factor in their collapse are two very, very different things. They don't need to go hand-in-hand. In short: having a weak legal case against Apple and the publishers says very little about whether or not agency pricing contributed to Diesel's and BooksOnBoard's demise.
As far as Fictionwise goes, there is no question in my mind that agency-pricing ended their Micropay program. Nor that Fictionwise's Micropay program was their primary tool for competing against bigger ebook retailers including Amazon. That B&N bought Fictionwise prior to agency pricing's original incarnation is neither here nor there in this regard. Fictionwise and Micropay survived long enough for agency pricing to kill them both.