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Originally Posted by Fbone
How much time must elapse between acceptance for it not to be collusion? We know from Random House it's less than a year.
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If you look at the proposed the DOJ settlement, they impose a two year suspension of pricing control by the settling publishers, followed by a staggered re-introduction of full on agency pricing, should the SPs want it. It seems the DOJ would have been OK with a rolling introduction of agency pricing-its the seeming lockstep manner it was introduced was what they disliked.
If the SPS go back to agency in a stepwise, one-by-one fashion after two years, the DOJ will most likely not interfere, IMO.
Of course in two year's time, the SPs may not want to. We'll see.(I think it likely they'll re-impose full on agency).