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Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash
I'm inclined to believe that it's more about discovery of needed evidence.
There is a distinction between being in cahoots with price fixing, and making decisions in the best interest of a company. All it would take is evidence of threats of, or even allusions to, publishers pulling their content from Amazon to paint Amazon as a company under duress to comply for the sake of remaining competitive, rather than a company in collusion with the publishers.
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Agreed on both counts.
The coertion aspect is where the racketeering exposure could come in, btw.
Extortion and/or bribery are RICO-enablers.
(Random House was the last to join the cabal in the US but they were in on the discussions from day one and they joined in soon enough.)