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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
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.
And can this be proved to be because of agency pricing rather than the release of several other wifi-enabled ereaders?
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Actually, the publishers instituted agency pricing in order to FOSTER competition. Thats not an illegal objective.
Those wifi enabled erebook readers made it onto the market not because the companies thought, gee willickers, wouldn't it be great for us to introduce wifi enabled ebook readers, but because the companies had the resources to devote to developing those devices. If they had to use those resources to defend against deep discounts that Amazon can fund by selling other stuff, then those ebook readers wouldn't have been introduced.