In the first month of the Kobo partnership (Oct. last year), independent bookstores sold more ebooks than in the entire two years working with Google.

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It was a permanent paperback format that would be sold in bookstores, not like paperbacks sold in newsstands.

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These factors put significant pressure on local independent bookstores because they typically sold fewer books at higher prices.

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The complaint states that the companies accomplished their conspiracy by agreeing to stop the longstanding practice of selling e-books, as they long sold print books, on wholesale to bookstores, and leaving it to the bookstores to set the price at which they would sell the e-books to consumers.

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