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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
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.
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The publishers concerned have been demonstrated to be happy to use illegal methods when setting contracts, so their behaviour is going to be more closely monitored and circumscribed, to make sure they don't do it again.
The entire contracts would have been legal if they had been entered into without collusion, but that wasn't the case.
Random House didn't engage in any illegal activity.
Whether this results in Amazon's market share going up or down is completely irrelevant to the case at hand.