[fjtorres]

One more time:

Six companies simultaneously fixed ebook prices at the same *higher* levels, forbidding discounting, and resulting in clear, measurable harm to consumers.
Whether it hurts Amazon or not is irrelevant to the trustbusters.
Whether they "meant well" or not is irrelevant.

If Amazon *had* done something wrong, *they* would be on the carpet facing the DOJ; they *were* investigated too, you know.
For all we know, their day in front of the trustbusters is right around the corner. Random house, too. And don't be sure B&N gets off scott-free. Once one of the BPHs rolls, the dominoes start falling and there's a lot more players benefitted from the scam than meets the eye.

Big money-making companies conspired, consumers were hurt, the feds are not amused. (And it's an election year.) That is the bottom line.

All else is just posturing and finger-pointing.