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Originally Posted by murraypaul
It is anti-competitive, it directly prevents price competition.
It is not illegal.
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Depends on how you define the competition. A book maker need not have to compete against himself. He still has to compete against all the other publishers, including the independents who sell their books for $1 or so.
Amazon putting all the best sellers on sale for $9.99 was harming the business the publishers had built. And it worked for Amazon. Sell the every expensive Kindle by losing money on those ebooks...and by the time the price was able to come down on the ebook readers, Amazon owned the market.
And thus going to agency didn't bother Amazon at all.