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Originally Posted by Apache
It is illegal when the companies conspire together to fix the price.
Apache
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And when the lead conspirator gets a 3-6 month lead on the new terms compared to the smaller independent bookstores.
When the conspiracy kicked in, Apple had its contracts all lined up from day one. Everybody else had theirs revoked and had to *start* negotiating new ones. Fictionwise never did.
Diesel had to get by for months on indie titles and lost most of their non-romance regulars. That let them muddle through, but at the absolute peak of US ereader adoption in 2010 they had no BPH titles to sell.
The exact amount of damages may be very hard to quantify but that they were damaged by the illegal conspiracy is easy to document. Which is why the case proceeds.