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Old 06-21-2013, 05:57 PM   #87
fjtorres
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Originally Posted by leebase View Post
That's funny. So it's not the company with 90% (pre Agency) market share that must be dealt with....but Apple who now has 20%?
Uh-huh.
High market share is no more illegal than (honest) Agency Agreements.
Serving as the hub for a conspiracy to take (steal?) market share from everybody *but* Amazon needs to be dealt with.

The problem with the whole "it's all about Amazon!" is that Amazon never lost any market share because of the conspiracy and is now far more dominant in ebooks and ereaders than they were in 2009.

Consumers, on the other hand, have lost money and *choice* as indie ebookstores have closed because of the conspiracy and ereader vendors bowed out of the business because of the near-cost pricing fostered by the added revenue from the price hikes.

So, yes; it would serve the greater good of humanity if the legal system were to reiterate that conspiring to force competitors to raise prices is not to be tolerated.

If I had my way, Apple would be ordered to divest itself of its ill-gotten market share gains, spinning iBooks off to sink or swim on its own.
Most likely they'll get a slap on the wrist fine worth maybe a half hor of iPhone revenues.

The world runs as it wills.
But if I ever get to be planetary dictator...
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