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Originally Posted by rcentros
One thing they could do is get rid agency pricing ... for one publisher anyhow. But I'm guessing there would be all kinds regulatory issues with such a deal.
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Regulatory response is one of the things Amazon must consider. Nevertheless, if it was to happen now there are still another 4 Big Publishers, though I do vaguely recall something about PRH being much larger than the others. There is also the question of how the market is defined, since Amazon at the moment is not even in the business of distributing products to physical bookstores other than their own. Nor are its publishing imprints huge, though KDP is.
As to agency pricing? Yes, I do expect it would go, because I would not expect Amazon to try to preserve print book sales at the expense of ebooks, which would almost certainly be far more profitable for it.
Also interesting, of course, is what Amazon would do with the distribution and print sides of the business.