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Old 12-08-2011, 11:32 AM   #35
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Originally Posted by teh603 View Post
Isn't that what Wal-Mart does, though? And they're the big "champion of capitalism" that nobody dares touch even though one of their megastores can put an entire town's small business out of business.
And at the same time, employ twice as many people as those small businesses and offer health insurance to boot. Try getting low cost health insurance at the local three-employee shoe shop. Then again, try getting a quality shoe at Walmart. Some benefits, some trade-offs.

And unless I'm misunderstanding the article, the investigation is not into Apple--it's into the practices of the publishers that sell books through Apple & Amazon & Sony & B&N's platforms.
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