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Old 07-26-2018, 05:54 PM   #46
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Originally Posted by pwalker8 View Post
I get that you consider agency to be some great evil, but consider that Amazon was already raising their prices quite a bit before agreeing to agency. Once they had their market share, they had no reason to keep prices down.
Have you provided any dates or other evidence for this "Amazon was already raising their prices quite a bit before agreeing to agency" claim?

I'm not saying they weren't raising ebook prices. I'm saying I don't remember it all. It certainly didn't affect my buying habits if it was going on. My new-release best-sellers were consistently priced at $9.99 right up until the agency fight commenced. Backlist (where available) was always priced much lower than it is now, too. The increase in the price I was paying for ebooks from Amazon coincided exactly with the agency fight.

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