Thread: DOJ suing Apple over ebooks.
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Old 04-17-2012, 06:09 PM   #475
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Originally Posted by ProfCrash View Post
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.
The settlements do allow agency pricing. They don't allow most-favored status or restraints on discounts (for 2 years) for those who settle. You've been going off about this for a few days, and you didn't know that?

RH can also keep agency and reduce prices at will, if it needs to respond to competitive pressures. The DoJ isn't even forcing RH to allow discounts or abandon its most-favored status, yet that's what gets targeted in the settlement. So again... it's like the DoJ is preventing the settling publishers from engaging in otherwise legal activity.

Again, we're going to wake up one day, and Amazon is going to have 80% or more of the market in ebooks and no viable competitor left standing. Try not to be shocked when it doesn't work out quite as fantabulous as you expect....
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