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The settlement says that those Publishers have to void their contracts with bookstores and renegotiate with them. The terms allow for discounts but do not allow for any bookstore to sell books at a net lose.
Random House is not involved because it waited a year before moving to the Agency Model and was not involved in the collusion.
The settlement is not handing Amazon anything. It is negating policies that were deemed to be illegal because they were set in place due to collusion not because the policy itself was illegal.
So Random House can keep Agency Pricing. I doubt it will because its books will probably be more expensive then the other Publishers. The settlement itself might even allow Agency Pricing on some level while still allowing for some type of discounting and bundeling.
We don't know what the end contracts are going to look like. The DOJ is not handing Amazon anything, they negotiated a settlement to right an illegal situation.
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