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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 . The court may just find that a group of manufacturers can do the same thing under certain conditions.
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And they might not.
The sun might go nova, tomorrow; or it might not.
Anybody can postulate anything that might happen. Or not.
Now, *you* may think the publishers are golden but, apparently, the DOJ staff of lawyers begs to differ. Apparently, *they* think that 5 publishers and one retailer conspiring to fix and *raise* prices, for *whatever* declared reason, are breaking the law.
And, let's face it: the opinion that matters is the DOJ's because they're the ones getting ready to file antitrust charges on the basis of the *evidence* they have, which includes testimony and documents from all the relevant players. (Have you seen them? I'd love to see them myself.)
The ball is the DOJ's hands, they make the call now.