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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Apple is guilty of doing something in the US that it would be essentially illegal not to do in France and Germany. This is course doesn't prove that publishers should set minimum prices. But it does kindda suggest that, morally, it's not a slam-dunk Standard Oil kind of case.
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The big difference is that in France the parliament voted to force the publishers to set minimum prices for all forms of books, not just ebooks, and they did it to preserve small bricks and mortar bookstores. In the US, the publishers and Apple conspired to do this so they could raise ebook prices and keep hardcover prices from eroding.