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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
Given that the court is addressing collusion and not how the market worked to drive prices of e-readers down I doubt that the price of e-readers will enter the picture. If the court is interested in that, they can take a basic economics class.
That has nothing to do with the case that argues that the Publishers and Apple colluded to set the price of e-books.
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Well, the courts will certainly consider analysis by economists if that is submitted. Clearly, you buy the DOJ view that we should focus on whether there was any agreement to raise prices and nothing else. That's not the defense approach. The courts have certainly held in past that they can consider more than whether there was just an agreement to raise prices- which is why the defense is taking that approach.
I'll point out that the defense do insist, clearly and forcefully, that there was no collusion. That's theirmain defense.