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Originally Posted by rhadin
The U.S. Supreme Court has already approved agency pricing with regard to electronics, so it is doubtful anything will happen to upset the ebook agency pricing.
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The Brusselcrats are looking into the *coordination* side of the deal. As "cartel-ing".
The feds might be working off the idea that *one* company doing it is okay but *five* coordinating to do the same thing at once doesn't pass the smell test for "coincidence". Random House had their own qualms, which is why they held back for a while.
It may yet turn out that they should've waited a few months more.
The thing to bear in mind is that it is the *antitrust* guys investigating in the US. And, as US history has shown, pretty much anything can be an antitrust violation, so long as the feds say it is.
Antitrust and RICO are very broad and ill-defined by design.
That's why always takes forever to convict under them.
