The new system has changed my buying habits, I think, although perhaps not the criteria on which I base my purchases. I haven't bought nearly as much from Fictionwise (my erstwhile main source of recent content) lately. I have a wishlist full of $11-$20+ books over there that I have no intention of purchasing until they come down. I tried buying some of their recent and more reasonably priced multiformat releases, but found that the writing quality tended toward the abysmal - and then I discovered that with a bit of searching, I could do better at Smashwords. So the new agency model has redirected me away from traditional publishers.
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