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Originally Posted by JSWolf
If the terms say eBooks cannot be sold at a loss, then the sellers would have to give up the records of the eBook sales in order to satisfy this. That includes Amazon.
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The sellers aren't subject to the lawsuit. They aren't required to comply with the results of the ruling. It's possible that the publishers won't legally be *allowed* to sell at a vendor who won't give them that data--which means Amazon (and the other vendors) would have easy leverage to screw them over at will.
There's a big difference between "sellers are required to hand over that data because of a DOJ settlement," which is not the situation, and "future contracts between seller & publisher will include a section about data the seller is required to hand over"--which is possible, but gives Amazon leverage that the publishers don't want.
It's possible that the sales statements Amazon already hands over includes that data as a matter of course, in which case, publishers will have an easy time of it. However, again, there's a difference between "this data has always been available" and "this data will always be available in the future." A shift in Amazon's accounting or reporting software could change that.