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Originally Posted by Synamon
What exactly would it take to change your opinion, if a ruling by a judge with access to all the facts doesn't do it?
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You know as well as I do, that had the decision gone in Apple's favor -- not a single person here would have changed their opinion.
Nothing is going to change my mind due to the ruling, and I'd just be repeating all the points I and others have made all along.
1. $9.99 is not the "market price" of NYT Best Selling ebooks, it's the predatory pricing Amazon was using to buy up market share and run competitors out of business.
2. Agency pricing is legal.
3. Publishers setting the prices instead of Amazon does not equate to "price fixing". Publishers still have to compete against books from other publishers, from free books, from the library, from the horde of cheap independent books etc. You can't compare this to selling gas or milk or bread. It's just books, and no one need buy a book.
4. Agency pricing brought more competition to the market, not less.
5. The result of this loss by Apple and the publishers will not result in $9.99 ebooks....rather it will result in ebooks being time windowed. You can't force the publishers to allow the selling of ebooks at $9.99 during the high demand window where they sell hard backs for $20+
But -- all of this had been said before. I don't expect anyone to change their opinions.