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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Or as common as Apple telling every big music label that "either we sell your songs for $1 each, or we won't sell your stuff on iTunes." (A huge change, by the way, from retailers paying up front for physical LPs, tapes and CDs, and getting pricing and/or discounting latitude.)
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There is a difference here. Your example is one company going to a bunch of others and saying "These are our terms, take them or leave them", where as with ebooks it was several companies going to all of their e-tail partners and saying "these our our terms, take them or leave them", simultaneously. If it was staggered, such as others acting in response to a competitor, or just simply one, then it isn't a big deal. The idea that it was 5 at the same time brings up the idea that they worked together on it.