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Originally Posted by elcreative
So because the quality of the way content is displayed is different then our hypothetical 50" TVs (and please note that I did NOT originate this comparison so stop jumping all over my comments... go do the originator over) are all vastly different... a TV displays a broadcast programme, now whilst the quality of picture and sound may vary wildly, the content, of any individual programmme, is the SAME... two different books with different titles but physically the same size (dimensions and page count) do NOT have the same content and are NOT directly comparable... that is what I was putting over... and taking a joking poke at the OP of the comparison...
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That one (the TV comparison) was on me, not on elcreative! I deserve any criticism for the comparison.
The point I was attempting to make but seemed to have failed was this: TV panel manufactures were found to have participated in price fixing. These televisions all had different specs, sizes, features, colors, refresh rates, luminosity, etc. They were all very different. Yet they were all televisions. They were all selling televisions and could get together and influence market prices by agreeing to certain minimum prices etc.
The same holds for books. They all contain different content, they are different sizes, shape, composition, etc. But they are all books. The publishers could get together and agree to certain minimum prices etc.