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Originally Posted by HarryT
My unease lies in the idea of prohibiting future agency pricing, given that per se it's an entirely legal practice.
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I'd agree, if agency pricing were being proscribed forever. But they're only being asked to abandon their illegally (allegedly) gained leverage for a period of two (or three?) years. Which seems to me like a perfectly valid compromise between outright denying their right to use agency pricing and allowing an end-run around collusion laws that only requires offenders to pay a monetary penalty for leverage gained illegally. I think most of the publishers would have agreed to just pay the fine up front and proceed to "collude away" if that were the case.
