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Originally Posted by Chubulor
As much as I dislike Apple, I dislike government interference in business transactions even more. If the competitors have a problem with this, they need to develop a large customer base that's attractive to publishers, not run crying to the government.
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From my reading of the article, it seems that the CT AG is concerned about the impact on consumers, not the competing resellers. Given that the publishing industry is pretty much a quintessential oligopoly, the new Amazon and Apple agreements may violating existing consumer protection statutes.