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Originally Posted by darryl
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.
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Ah, but Agency has done wonders limiting ebook retail competition by crippling the ebook-only players (Apple and Google most notably) and discouraging new entrants.
I wouldn't expect an Amazon-controlled publisher to be the first to abandon Agency. Not as long as the others give it free antitrust cover.
(Do note that APub books are quietly Agency priced. 30% to Kindle, 70% to Apub. They just price them to maximize sales, not per unit margin.)
And Amazon does care about print. Yes, it is low margin but Amazon *likes* low margin if the volume is high enough. They do promote print through Createspace and KDP PRINT, after all. And Apub. And AmazonBooks.
Amazon isn't proud, they'll make money wherever they can.
