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Originally Posted by murraypaul
In other words, good for Amazon  |
Of course it's good for Amazon. But the publishers were insisting that agency pricing was meant to prevent Amazon's monopoly.
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Originally Posted by Fbone
We're not seeing large discounts now when there is only one 12-month period possible. December 2012 starts one period then January starts the second. Retailers may be waiting to see how sales develop for several months to see how much more they can discount. Or they may do special time limited sales. Daily Deals, weekly highlights, movie-tie ins, etc.
In any case. Amazon isn't, as far as I can see, discounting up to their full 30% commission. Maybe they are content matching other retailers. They must have good reasons for their strategy.
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I think that they are waiting to see the publisher's strategy first.
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Originally Posted by sun surfer
One possible remedy is that they could only sell a certain number of books before the discount ends rather than ending a deal after a certain amount of time.
That way, they'd be able to automatically stop the discount before the loss per book exceeds profits.
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