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Actually since it came out in the trial the B&N was the first to start talking agency model with the various publishers, the answer is no I wasn't tsk-tsking. The real question is would you be so fast to grab the pitchforks and torches if Apple wasn't involved?
For me, the basic question is how can one be guilty of conspiracy to set prices, if one agrees not to set prices? Answer, you can't unless someone is able to show that the publishers agreed among themselves to set prices and Apple was party to that. As far as I know, that was never even alleged in this case, much less shown. Pretty much all Apple agreeing to agency pricing did was give the individual publishers leverage against Amazon.
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