Thread: U.S. Justice Dept. to Sue Publishers, Apple, for Price Collusion?
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Old 03-15-2012, 04:51 PM   #217
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Originally Posted by stonetools View Post
Where its illegal price fixing is where Random House and McMillan get together to say all mystery novels shall be 14.99 or where they decide that novel X will be 14.99 or novel Y will be 13.99.There is no evidence that the publishers did anything like that.
Except, of course, by looking at the prices of the various books, especially bestsellers, after agency pricing went into effect.

Getting together to agree "all new releases in hardcover shall be at least $12.99, and at least $14.99 if we have reason to believe it'll be on the bestseller lists," is price fixing. They don't need to break it down by genre to be illegal.
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