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Originally Posted by JSWolf
But it would be what's right because Apple caused harm to people all over the world. Apple caused money to be taken from our pocket by getting the BPHs together and causing prices to be raised to silly amounts.
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"Silly amounts" -- a price was put on a product, customers paid the price. We aren't talking about food, milk, gas, electricity. No on HAS to buy a just released NYT's best selling ebook.
This very forum is flooded with messages where people have boycotted the "Agency 5" (which became 6). The publishers put a stop to Amazon UNDERPRICING their products...but they have NO POWER WHATSOEVER to coerce someone into buying their books.
Steve Jobs even said that it MAY have turned out that Amazon was right and $9.99 was the best price for ebooks. What the threat of Apple's entry into the business did was give the publishers the power to TRY and set a higher price.
By "TRY" you realize that just pricing a book at $14.99 does not mean it will SELL (in sufficient quantities). Market forces have not been thwarted. There are a near infinite supply of ebooks at all prices from free on up. If a customer bought a book at $14.99, they were not "harmed"...they made a choice that they valued the price for the book that was offered.