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Originally Posted by stonetools
A Forbes article pointed out that if the one publisher had bought out all the others, that publisher would have been able to set any price they liked.
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And if your aunt had testicles she might be your uncle.
That sounds like a perfectly legal alternative for the BPHs... so why didn't they do it that way?
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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Amazon's aggressive pricing or soon-to-be-reinstated monopoly aren't necessarily illegal either. That doesn't mean it was a good idea for the DoJ to hand Amazon control of the ebook market on a silver platter.
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The DOJ claims to have evidence that Amazon's pricing wasn't quite as "aggressive" as publishers and competitors would like us to believe. That the publishers were lowering wholesale best-seller prices to very nearly the same $9.99 that Amazon was selling them them for.