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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Well, they say that when everyone disagrees with you, then maybe you should stop and think about it. Perhaps they wave it away because it didn't actually happen. Price fixing is when a specific price is set. What the publishers were accused of was getting together and telling Amazon that each of the publishers wanted the ability to set their own price in a model know as agency pricing. A model that is actually quite legal. Price fixing is not legal.
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If everyone does disagree with you it's wise to reconsider the facts. In this case it's not everyone and the people who disagree have no facts.
The district court ruled that Apple had conspired with five book publishers to increase the price of e-books for consumers. The opinion pieces never mention this or the fact that Macmillan was one of the five publishers when they talk about the horror of Amazon removing the buy buttons. Any real journalist would at least consider that criminal conspiracy is a bigger story then removing a buy button. Also that Macmillan admitted telling Amazon that if they don't accept being an agent they would window books to Amazon. That seems to be as powerful of a threat and negotiating tactic, especially when Macmillan has an unquestionable monopoly on their author's books.
Two of the NY Times articles were written by the same two people and neither of them are journalism. The third is at least clearly called out as an opinion piece.