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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
Not the first time a publisher has windowed certain titles or even their entire new release catalog. Harper Collins tried it years ago (IIRC a 4 month window) and then walked back the decision and I believe PRH does it with certain author titles although not for as long of a period (IIRC a few weeks to a month).
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Late 2009.
Just before the great pbook price war of 2009 between Target, Walmart, and Amazon.
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/books/21price.html
They windowed all ebooks. Everywhere. It hit the bottom line right away.
They retreated before the four months were up.