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The agency model didn't affect me at all. If I feel prices are unreasonable, I won't buy the product. After all, reading is an optional life activity and there isn't any book that's a must read for me. There's always a cheaper alternative.
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Agency pricing may have changed a book you would have otherwise bought to one that you skipped for being unreasonably priced. Maybe that book was one that would have changed your life. |
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He was at the end of his rope. He swore that if he didn't sell x number of copies that month, he would consider himself a failure, and give up. Thanks to you not buying that copy, he only sold x-1. He quits, get's depressed, gets into his car and drives for hours, tears in his eyes, exhausted, distracted by his bleak future, and he runs over you. See, it still may affect you. (Bring it on...you will not win this argument....) |
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So I'm allowed to jump ahead to the likely outcome. If you look at my posts, I'm not debating anybody's innocence--I had them pegged as guilty from the day the conpiracy announced the Price Fix--I'm wondering what the penalties will be like. I'm hoping Apple will have to divest itself of iBooks and every Apple exec will be shadowed by a DOJ "intern" for the next century. (Not to beat a dead horse, but collusion is a standard business practice at Apple: http://www.businessinsider.com/new-e...ges-low-2012-1) What I fear is they'll get fined a billion and a half and told not to do it again. What I expect is something in the middle since they are a serial colluder. But unless Judge Cote has a Cayman Islands bank account that just got a big infusion of cash via Ireland, "innocent" is not anywhere on my radar for this case. Sorry. (Page 81 of the DOJ brief and Mr Shanks' testimony makes it pretty much an open and shut case for me.) Quote:
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One problem with that strategy; the DOJ can shortcircuit the appeals process by petitioning directly to the SCOTUS. That is what they did in the Microsoft case. In that event the case could be over as early as october. |
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