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There is no price fixing here. Price fixing would be if two publishers agreed to sell their books for the same price. What folks are demanding is for a publisher to compete against ITSELF. That it should allow one of it's distributors put all the rest of it's distributors out of business by subsidizing the sales of the publisher's product.
The publishers have to compete with each other. They have to compete with all the other publishers and independent authors. They have to compete with the used version of their own products. They have to compete with libraries. They have to compete with all the free out of copyright books. They have to compete with all the free books given out by other publishers.
PLUS -- no one needs to buy a book. This is not milk, bread or gas.
This suit is without merit, but that's not unusual in this litigious society.
Lee
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