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Originally Posted by kennyc
So that makes creating a price-fixing conspiracy okay.  |
I'm thinking you don't understand what price fixing actually means. Apple said, you set the price. I don't care what price you sale it at as long as you don't sale it for less elsewhere and we get a percentage of the price. All the agency price model means is that the publishers set the price, not the retailers. What Amazon was doing was setting the price much lower to generate market share. IMPO, the Gov't would have had a much better case against Amazon, given that they were in a near monopoly position at the time.
Now if the publishers got together and set a price that everyone would use, that would be price fixing, but that isn't what happened, or at least no one has presented proof that this is what happened.
Now, before you simply say "well, he's just another Apple fanboy", I would point out that I've only bought 3 ebooks from Apple over the years. I've bought thousands of ebooks from Amazon. I prefer Amazon for a number of reasons. But that doesn't mean that I beat Apple, or Microsoft with any stick that I can find. Competition is good. Apple getting into the ebook market gives Amazon competition, which means that Amazon has to be more responsive to consumer needs. Do we really want to go back to the days when Amazon had 90% of the ebook market rather than the 60% which they are currently estimated at?