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Originally Posted by kjk
Sure there was. And yes, we all reaped the benefits of Amazon undercutting prices because they had the financial muscle/long-term plan to take a loss for a while...that doesn't in itself make it "right". (Not claiming the agency model is any better, but I'm not putting Amazon on a pedestal just because I could save $5 on a best seller)
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If Amazon had been shooting to become a monopoly on ebooks they would have sold in all formats. Not having epub alone ensured that an Amazon monopoly was never a realistic prospect.
I definitely wasn't putting Amazon on a pedestal. Though I have always experienced them as a very customer oriented company. But I was comparing them favorably to the price collusion under the agency model we have now.