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Originally Posted by whitearrow
It's utterly irrelevant now that 5 of the 6 big publishers are using the agency model. Amazon isn't setting the prices, and has no control over them. What Amazon said in its marketing 2+ years ago just doesn't matter now.
Not that it matters, but it was never a promise or a guarantee that *all* books would be $9.99 or less.
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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
Nope, they never promised anything of the sort. As far as it goes Amazon is still doing the $9.99 thing on books they sell, they simply aren't the seller for all the books anymore. The Agency 5 are setup like any other 3rd party seller on Amazon.
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no, I understand it was the N.Y. Times best sellers, but it still sets the bar. an unsteady bar for sure, but it is set