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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
It does matter whether it was for the good of the ebook market; if they can prove (or show reasonable evidence to support) that they were preventing a collapse of the industry, or that Amazon was going to jack prices up to $18/book as soon as they'd driven BN.com and Diesel out of business, they'd have a potential excuse for raising prices for consumers.
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Are you sure on that? Whilst I'm certainly not a lawyer and don't play one on TV, from what I've read, the reason behind price fixing doesn't matter. Whether prices are increased or lowered for a good reason or not.
Not the most reliable source I'll concede, but I had a quick google and turned up
this on wikipedia:
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In the United States, agreements to fix, raise, lower, stabilize, or otherwise set a price are illegal per se.[7] It does not matter if the price agreed upon is reasonable or for a good or altruistic cause or if the agreement is unspoken and tacit.
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