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Originally Posted by Nightyume
After all, if they were just paying the publishers a set price then the publishers wouldn't have tried to fix the prices as they would get paid the same amount.
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What they got paid had little to do with why publishers fixed prices. They often got
less per copy (for books out in hardcover anyway) than they did under the old wholesale model. What publishers wanted was
control as they feared ebook prices dropping too low and thus setting consumer price expectations low.