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Originally Posted by ceebee_uk
 I'm getting a fair number of emails from ebook stores ref pricing of ebooks. WH Smith have some major reductions on top 100 books and even Waterstones prices are getting reasonably cheap, the Kobo site also has reductions.
Is this a response to the Kindle, Amazon seem to be buying market share with their content and hardware pricing.
Do you think this will continue so that the distribution costs of ebooks are reflected in their price ? |
Unfortunately Hachette UK is forcing bookstores to accept the agency model at the moment.
Bookstores are presenting a united front against Hachette for now (hachette books are only available at Amazon at the moment, for non-agency prices), but as soon as one bookstore caves in to Hachette the rest will probably follow and than all big publishers will force all bookstores to accept the agency model.
So it all depends on who wins the current agency battle, Hachette or the bookstores.