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Originally Posted by stonetools
Im sorry but there's more to it than that. According to a recent supreme court opinion a manufacturer can set minimum Prices for its goods under a doctrine called resale Price Maintainence.
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Yes, but five manufacturers and a retail outlet can't coordinate their efforts to raise all their prices at the same time and force that new pricing model on other retail outlets.
The issue isn't "are publishers allowed to set their own prices?" but "did supposedly-competing companies coordinate their efforts, drastically changing years of established business practices and strong-arming changes to existing contracts, to inflict higher prices on consumers?"