Thread: U.S. Justice Dept. to Sue Publishers, Apple, for Price Collusion?
View Single Post
Old 03-13-2012, 10:43 AM   #155
Elfwreck
Grand Sorcerer
Elfwreck ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Elfwreck ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Elfwreck ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Elfwreck ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Elfwreck ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Elfwreck ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Elfwreck ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Elfwreck ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Elfwreck ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Elfwreck ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Elfwreck ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Elfwreck's Avatar
 
Posts: 5,187
Karma: 25133758
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: SF Bay Area, California, USA
Device: Pocketbook Touch HD3 (Past: Kobo Mini, PEZ, PRS-505, Clié)
Quote:
Originally Posted by stonetools View Post
I agree that agency pricing does hurt sales . That misses the point. The publishers instituted agency pricing above all to prevent Amazon from maintaining their monopoly of the ebook retail market.
Conspiring to raise prices to shut down the competition is not legal, any more than conspiring to lower prices to shut down the competition is. If publishers didn't want Amazon to have market dominance, all they had to do was stop selling through Amazon.

Quote:
It did achieve that goal ( Amazon's share of the ebook market dropped from 90 to 60 per cent and other companies became ebook retailers).
And can this be proved to be because of agency pricing rather than the release of several other wifi-enabled ereaders?
Elfwreck is offline   Reply With Quote