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Originally Posted by stonetools
1. Agency pricing is here to stay. The DOJ could have forbidden agency pricing going forward. They didn't and the reason is that they have accepted the logic of agency pricing: that the creator should control the sale price of their product. What the DOJ seems most concerned about the "appearance of collusion". Had the publishers simply spaced out their moves to agency at three month intervals, there would have been no lawsuit, even though we would have ended up in the exact same place.
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Then sure hope this catches on to other industries. Imagine agency groceries. All grocery stores charging the same inflated prices. Mustn't let stores do their own pricing, because it would devalue the worth of food.
