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Originally Posted by issybird
Meh. Given that agency survives so there's not a lot of price competition anyway, this has made things easier. I figure neither Kobo nor Kindle is on the ropes and I don't buy anywhere else. I buy from Kobo by preference and let the books download and only buy from Amazon when there's a significant price difference (in my laziness I can't be bothered with price-matching) and will either read on an app (I don't have a Kindle) or maybe download, convert and sideload if I'm motivated, but that's not a big percentage of my purchases. In both cases I'm not worried about being able to access unread books in the near to intermediate future and I don't care much about the read ones with rare exceptions. So on a practical level, the shakeout was a good thing - however, I suspect I'd have fallen into this pattern eventually anyway.
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Before agency I did like shopping around. I did like the way Fictionwise and BooksOnBoard did business. I liked being able to get free eBooks because of the rewards. I felt I got a lot of bargains. Now the way it is, prices can be rather high. Sometimes more then the pBook. The pBook can be discounted but the eBook not.