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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
I suppose that Apple is unlikely to lose in its home market. But Europe has its own probe. If Apple loses on one continent, it may affect all.
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Sorry, no. Apple won its preliminary injunction against Samsung in Germany and lost it in California.
And of course most of the big publishers are European.
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Here's a Wikipedia article on the general issue:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resale_price_maintenance
From the link above, I gather that this sort of price fixing has only been legal in the US since 2007, and the situations in which it might be allowed are not fully settled law.[/QUOTE]
Agency pricing has nothing to do with resale price maintenance. And - as has been pointed out before - resale price maintenance of books is legally required in most of Europe. (Not just permitted).
So it's not at all clear what will happen with this, if anything.