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Originally Posted by caleb72
I know someone will be able to explain this to me, but why are they mentioning hardback pricing in this?
I've only ever been looking at this from the angle of ebooks so I'm not sure how hardbacks fit into this.
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Because publishers and B&N believe that "real books" are hardcovers, and ebooks are supposed to subsidize the failing hardcover-sales industry.
The DoJ rejected this claim, pointing out that if publishers want to support brick-and-mortar stores, they can do so directly--with dollars--rather than by pushing the cost of that support onto customers who apparently don't want to pay for those stores.