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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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Presumably, the argument is that the sales terms of "you can't sell it elsewhere cheaper than here", puts them in collusion with their supposed competitors to keep prices high everywhere.
Refusing to allow people to offer ebooks for free--but dropping them to free if they're sold that way at Smashwords--may also play into it; that shows they're not unwilling to offer free ebooks, but are engaging in pricefixing for books only sold through them.
(Speculation only. IANAL.)