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Originally Posted by stonetools
What's misleading about the whole agency pricing debate is that the issue for most posters here is not that the publishers acted illegally, rather it's that they acted to raise prices. It's the price raising, not the price fixing that's the problem.
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Speak for yourself, Stonetools. For me, it was the collusion between Apple and the Agency 5 before the release of the iPad to establish agency pricing for ebooks. Along with fixed-prices, no discounting, and the effort of the cartel to kill off smaller distributors (some didn't have agency books for almost a year afterwards).