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Originally Posted by howyoudoin
If the court rules that "book form" includes ebooks, could Amazon (as an example) then argue that they have the right to treat ebooks as the same as physical books, and therefore discount them like they do with physical books? Pardon me if this seems like a silly question.
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No, that would not be relevant. A publisher is under no obligation to supply Amazon with eBooks, and some of them have chosen to do so only on the condition that Amazon act as their agent, and not as a retailer. They are entirely free to do that. Heck, they could do it with paper books if they wanted to.