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Originally Posted by fjtorres
You misremember, sir.
At launch all agency ebooks did in fact share exactly two price points: $12.99 and $14.99. Apple insisted on it in the documents released in the court opinion. The publishers were reluctant because they wanted *everything* at $14.99 or higher.
More, price fixing conspiracies *often* agree to different prices for different conspirators (the european soap cartel cited above allowed each conspirator a band of prices and they took turns running promotions). The point is to prevent price competition among cartel members by coordinating their pricing, not merely (and crudely) sticking to one fixed price across the board. Price fuxing is about maintaining price floors rather than literal price fixing.
Here's a quickie history of cartels and illegal price fixing conspiracies from Hammurabi to the present:
http://bizshifts-trends.com/2014/04/...ness-strategy/ |
Funny how if someone asserts something often enough on the internet, it becomes accepted as fact. You confuse Apple's original starting proposal of two price points, that was what Steve Jobs mentioned to Murdock a year or so previous, with the final agreement of "fine, you can set the price, but we get x% and you can't sale it for less elsewhere" i.e. what is know as safe harbor.
We will see where all this leads once the appeals courts get their say.