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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
Don't see why Amazon is included in the lawsuit when they were against agency pricing in the first place. It just so happened they couldn't do anything but comply with the publishers' edict.
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That is Amazon's public position and likely would be their in-court position, but the case can be made that the price fix benefits them by increasing their BPH content margins, allowing them (as well as Kobo and B&N) to prosper by applying that added revenue to expand in other areas. There's no telling how compelling such a case might be in court, but it *can* be made and, as I pointed out above, in today's anti-business, class-warfare populist climate every succesful company is guilty until proven innocent and often not even then.