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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Oh, wait, to you it's good if they get busted.
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Yes, obviously. No cartel ever benefited the consumer, so I'm happy if such collusion is put to an end.
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(Even though publishers setting prices are apparently mandated by law in most of the EU.)
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First, just because a member state has a certain law on the books doesn't mean that this is in line with EU law in general. The European Court of Justice abrogates such laws many times a year. Secondly, this is not, as I've said, what this seems to be all about
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What's your source for this, or is this just your opinion? The Commission hasn't said anything specific, let alone anything along these lines.
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There are other sources. What about
the WSJ? Or
here.
That said, let's just apply common sense here for a second: if the only wrongdoing the Commission suspected was adhering to a country's book price fixing laws they certainly wouldn't need to raid publishers' offices at the break of dawn (OK, 10.30 a.m., but still) to ascertain that?
It's a collusion between publishers they're after, like the French Big Six equivalent getting together and saying, "look, about this newfangled ebook thing, nobody sell below € 13.99 a pop, mkay?" And yes, you better believe that it's chiefly Amazon on the other side, none too happy about such a cartel. (I suppose they only like monopolies of one. But I digress.)