Thread: Lawsuit Against Agency Model Balloons
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Old 10-06-2011, 11:44 AM   #7
Rob Lister
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Surely the publishers don't have to convince the court of anything - they are innocent until proven guilty. Do they not have the right to run their businesses as they see fit, provided that they are operating within the boundaries of the law?
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At the heart of the flurry of lawsuits is a challenge to “agency pricing,” the e-book pricing model under which book publishers set their own prices for e-books, paying the e-tailer (“agent”) a commission. Agency pricing requires e-books to be priced the same across all e-bookstores, meaning an e-tailer like Amazon can’t put a book from a participating publisher on sale to gain an edge over a competing seller—only the publisher can do that; and if an e-book goes on sale at one e-bookstore, it has to be priced the same at all others.
price fixing.
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