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I do agree with you in so far as me not buying books I consider are excessively priced. However, I do not agree publishers should be free to set their own prices in an agency pricing situation, where there seems to be a total lack of competition. Agency pricing operates practically to allow the publishers to artificially fix prices and exclude competition. Like far too many other industries, an oligopoly in this case, a duopoly in many others, operates to limit competition and keep prices high. Even agency pricing could work with the existence of real competition. Unfortunately there is none.
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