John Sargent, the CEO of Macmillan's spin on this, and his trotting out of Scott Turow's recent gem, is next to unbelievable:
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I hope you will agree with our stance, and with Scott Turow, the president of the Author’s Guild, who stated, “The irony of this bites hard: our government may be on the verge of killing real competition in order to save the appearance of competition. This would be tragic for all of us who value books and the culture they support.”
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Nice try. What the DOJ is doing is not killing real competition in order to save the appearance of competition, they are instead targeting real and existing consumer detrimental price fixing that the publishers justified as a "protection" to save consumers from the
potential future risk of detrimental price fixing.
And that's how the DOJ works. It deals with real, existing bogeymen, not potential, maybe, someday bogeymen.