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Originally Posted by HarryT
Apple are providing a service. It's their store; they can set whatever rules they want.
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They could, and there was nothing directly illegal about charging what many people considered an egregious fee for allowing ebook apps to link to there stores. Since 30% was the "agency fee," and several stores' percentage of self-pub ebooks, it meant that linking would hand over their entire revenue from the sales to Apple.
This is roughly equivalent to a neighbor saying "you can park in the extra space in my driveway if you pay me your entire net intake for that day." Legal: Yes; Reasonable: No.
However, since Apple has been found guilty of anti-competitive crimes, the judge has the right to consider *all* of their business activities, not just the ones directly under scrutiny. They're being required to support some of the competition they attempted to squash.