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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Utter nonsense! Apple is a high margin company and the word discount isn't in their vocabulary. Apple wanted a level playing field before they'd enter the game. To achieve it, they colluded with the publishers in order to force all retailers to accept prices that Apple could live with.
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Apple certainly is in the "margin" business...as in "make a profit"....as are all book sellers save Amazon. It is not in the publishers best interest for Amazon to drive profits out of the book business.
Let the customers decide with their wallets. If Amazon is so sure that certain publishers price their books "too high" -- let the market teach them. All the indie publishers and "wiser" traditional publishers will price cheaply, and the stupid publishers will just go out of business because they, unlike Amazon, don't know the worth of a book.