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Originally Posted by stonetools
So far there is no evidence that the publishers sat together and said some particular books (or classes of books) should be this or that price. Even if that's so, that might be legal-and even REQUIRED-in certain countries. This has been discussed before
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And has nothing whatsoever to do with agency pricing of eBooks, does it?
The issue is not prices increasing, it is acting in concert.
If publisher A went to publisher B and said "We are thinking of signing this agreement (agency pricing), we think will be good for the industry overall, but it will only work if we all do it, will you sign as well?", and publisher B did anything other than immediately report it to the competition authorities, then both have broken EU competition law.
Competitors must compete, they may not collude.