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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
That's because nobody ever colludes to make less money.
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No, corporations are good people, they never (allegedly)commit illegal acts. Andrys (A Kindle World) posted this Steve Jobs' quote from the Isaacson biography on her
blog:
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' "We told the publishers, 'We'll go to the agency model, where you set the price, and we get our 30%, and yes, the customer pays a little more, but that's what you want anyway." They went to Amazon and said, 'You're going to sign an agency contract or we're not going to give you the books.' " '
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Nah, that doesn't sound like collusion. The
video (thanks Andrys) showing Jobs at the January 27, 2010 Ipad rollout:
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Mossberg asks (and this videoclip is part of the lawsuits) if Jobs meant Apple's wouldn't be $14.99 ... or that Amazon's wouldn't be $9.99.
Jobs paused and said "The prices will be the same."
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Clearly, SJ was having a genuine psychic moment. It was almost as though he had met with them to discuss joining the Agency instead of the far more plausible likelihood that the BPHs all simultaneously decided that they would enact the same scheme with the same 30% commission, going into effect at the same time, all without having any discussions with SJ or any of the other publishers. Apparently, they're
all psychic.
