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Originally Posted by leebase
Price fixing would be the publishers agreeing on a specific price. I don't think the publishers would have lost the court battle either. We'll never know as they settled without admitting guilt.
Neither the agency model nor Most Favored Nation provisions are illegal either.
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It is illegal when Apple and the BPHs who got together did this AT THE SAME TIME! It's not like one did it and then others decided it was a good idea. It was a conspiracy. It was collusion.
Take a look at Fictionwise. Fictionwise's business model was working very well before agency pricing. Because of Agency pricing, Apple and the other colluders caused Fictionwise's business model to no longer work. They drove Fictionwise out of business.
I do think the owners of Fictionwise (before B&N bought them) should sue the BPHs and Apple for what they did.
And I do think you don't understand what's going on. If you think Apple is innocent, then I feel sorry for your lack of understanding.