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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Fictionwise wasn't bought because they were doing poorly. They were bought because B&N wanted their eReader type DRM to use for their eBooks. Fictionwise was doing well until agency made them have to change how they did business.
Shops that had rewards, clubs, sales, and other business models were hit hard when agency came to be. Agency did cause some eBook store dto go under.
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Again shifting those goal posts, first it was agency was the death of all those stores, ignoring buyouts, then it was okay some got bought out but the others died because of agency, now it's some were pushed under.
And you're still ignoring that as it stands now, Amazon would still crush any storefront trying to start up because without agency they'd price ebooks at a loss, again, and wait things out.
You want to cherry pick that stores went under while agency pricing was being abused, but ignore that Amazon who has dominated ebook sales didn't use agency pricing at the time.