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Originally Posted by pwalker8
You keep pushing that narrative, even though those ebook stores either folded their tent or sold themselves to B&N well before Apple got involved, but I guess facts don't matter. Apple didn't eliminate any stores. Amazon was the store that had between 80% and 90% of the market, not Apple.
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Apple and the Price Fix Six did cause eBook stores to go under. Fictionwise was doing well with the business model they had and because of agency pricing, their business model had to go and then they became nothing special and sales tanked. Same with Books-on-Board. SO yes, Apple did cause these shops to go under.
There were others as well. What made each shop different was taken away. It means no more clubs, no more discounts, no more buy one get one free and so forth.
So please stop trying to say Apple and the Price Fix Six where not complicit when they 100% were.