Also, agency pricing is good for retailers that can't compete with Amazon on price. Of course, whether that is good for the customer is debatable, although the choice is increasingly between paying more to keep retailers afloat, or getting a "fair" price (and it remains my belief that ebooks are still overpriced) but seing most of the retailers go belly up. Before ebooks came along, I had never realized how crappy the whole publishing/retailing business was.
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