Smashwords founder Mark Coker has an extensive post on data he prepared for a phone call with the Department of Justice on Tuesday as part of the investigation of agency pricing. “My goal was to express why I think it’s critically important that the DoJ not take any actions to weaken or dismantle agency pricing for ebooks.” Smashwords also uses the agency model, driven to adopt it because one retailer alone “made it a practice to strictly enforce most-favored-nation pricing upon its authors and publishers”–Amazon. At first Smashwords used the “hybrid” model that many publishers were forced to deploy when […]
