Thread: Apple gripes about antitrust monitoring
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Old 01-17-2014, 10:56 PM   #178
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg View Post
When the antitrust restrictions expire, one publisher can announce they will insist on agency. Then the others can do the same, or not, their choice. It's not that different than if the same offer and response was made over a lunch meeting, but only the latter is illegal. I did oversimplify.
Random House was never part of the DOJ suits even though they had had meetings with Apple, and also went to agency pricing a year after the other publishers. The DOJ was never against agency pricing, it was about the discussions between Apple and the publishers and their unified ultimatum to Amazon (and other retailers) that they either switched to agency pricing on April Fools Day 2010, or not be able to sell ebooks.
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