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Originally Posted by Graham
Surely you should look at the books sold by the defendant publishers? The DOJ showed conclusively that the average price of those rose following the introduction of the agency pricing contracts.
Graham
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No, go back and look at it. The DOJ showed that a subset of books (which they didn't define) increased in price, not that prices increased overall. For me, the average cost of a book from Amazon stayed right around $9-$10 from 2009 until 2012 spread out over roughly 500 books.
Apple started talking to the publishers in late 2009, the iBook store was launched in Spring 2010. The publisher settlement was in the Fall of 2012.