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Old 01-25-2011, 05:46 PM   #37
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Originally Posted by KevinH View Post
1 infringing download shared among friends may in fact result in additional sales!
Or, 100 infringing downloads among total strangers may result in, oh, let's say 5 sales losses.



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Originally Posted by KevinH
Where is this EULA?
Kindle EULA: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custom...deId=200144530
Nook TOS: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/legal/index.asp
iTunes TOS: http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/terms.html#SALE
Smashwords TOS: http://www.smashwords.com/about/tos
Sony eBook store TOS: http://ebookstore.sony.com/termsofservice.html

These are all click-throughs when you buy the device, install the software and/or purchase content.


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What else can you call Amazon being forced to raise it prices via the collusion of multiple publishers getting into a group and agreeing to agency pricing and then pushing it.
It's called "Amazon caving after clumsily pulling MacMillan's books in an ill-conceived attempt to apply pressure to the publishers."

There was no "group" that coordinated agency pricing, and several of the largest publishers in the world do not use agency pricing.

It's similar to how Walmart routinely tells its vendors "you WILL provide this much product, at this exact wholesale price, which we will sell at this price in the store, and you will not be so much as 5 minutes late on any deliveries, and if you don't do what we say then your goods won't be sold in the biggest retail chain in the US." You may not like it, and vendors may kvetch about it, but it's 100% legal.

And again: Developers set prices for their apps on the App Store; self-publishers and small pubs set their prices for a variety of outlets including Smashwords, Amazon's DTP, B&N's Pubit and so forth. Is that "anti-competitive?"
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