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Originally Posted by MGlitch
Unless of course the Amazon embargo was part of the pressure to get them to go with agency pricing on those new books rather than 9.99 in which case it’s mission accomplished.
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I don't think it had anything to do with the desire for agency pricing. If I recall correctly, the embargo for the Wheel of Time books was driven by the author's widow's desire that all the books make the NY Time's best seller list.
Back in the early days of the Kindle store, not every book was available as an ebook. Many authors were worried about piracy. There was quite a bit of experimentation during those first few years. Sony's ebook device and store predated the Amazon kindle by a year and there were other ebook stores as well that started well before the Kindle store. Fictionwise and Peanut Press had been around since 2000 or so if I remember correctly. It was a long time before books were released as ebooks as a matter of course.