Smashwords To Keep Agency Pricing Model

While Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster have agreed to abandon an agency model for eBook pricing, digital publishing platform Smashwords will continue to use the format to let its users set eBook prices. Smashwords CEO Mark Coker told eBookNewser: “We intend to vigorously defend agency as a superior pricing model that’s in the best long term interests of authors, readers, retailers...