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Originally Posted by rcentros
Yep. But how many of them are from major publishers (the ones who colluded with Apple to raise eBook prices via agent pricing)?
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Hum, now which company was it that signed all the agency pricing contracts with the publishers? I'm thinking of a company that starts with A, but isn't Apple. Funny after using the Feds to discourage Apple from competing head to head with Amazon, Amazon stopped caring about the $9.95 price point and learned to embrace agency pricing.
Now, someone who hadn't totally bought in to the whole Apple/publisher bad, Amazon good narrative, who point out that Amazon was using their other businesses to sell ebooks at below cost, so it wasn't that Apple and the publishers were raising prices, it was the Amazon stopped subsidizing the below market price with their other businesses. Plenty of books are available as ebooks well below $9.95, even from those evil publishers and on the Apple web site. Heck, Apple will even give you the first book in a number of series free. Can't get much cheaper than free. Maybe it's just time to drop that old tired canard.