Thread: Antitrust fallout: retailers sue conspirators
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Old 04-03-2014, 02:06 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by pwalker8 View Post
Everyone loves a conspiracy. It's the stuff of great thrillers, blog posts and the like. Thus the popularity of books on Area 51, the Kennedy assassination, Big Foot, UFO's and the like. Unfortunately, actual conspiracies aren't all that common. Pulling books/movies/tv shows is fairly common in negotiations, when both sides are playing hard ball. Happens all the time in cable TV. Heck, Amazon pulled some publishers in a similar dispute in 2012 -

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/0...ks-in-dispute/

Penguin played hard ball with Amazon with regards to ebooks. Kind of hard to call it a conspiracy though. By definition, a conspiracy requires more than one actor.
A further requirement for a "conspiracy" is secrecy.
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