Under the agency model — one of the factors that led the investigators to believe that anti-trust violations had taken place between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers, including HarperCollins — publishers get to set the
price of ebooks, rather than retailers; under the previous
wholesale model, retailers could purchase books directly from the publishers, then turn around and sell those titles for any amount, even taking a loss on the books in order to
boost sales of other products.
Federal Coalition politicians have hinted darkly that this «indivisibility» hides AGL's true intent to
boost the
wholesale electricity
price for Bayswater (and all other generators) by reducing supply when Liddell's generators grind to a halt for the last time.