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Originally Posted by ApK
It's your insistence on referring to the agency pricing as 'illegal.' that is making it sound like you are disagreeing when all your explanations seem to say you are not disagreeing. [...]
The agency pricing element is irrelevant and not at issue, and we can't understand why you insist on saying it's illegal, when you seem to be clearly saying that you understand it is not.
Why are you insisting on using the misleading language?
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Not misleading, simple a shortcut. Enforcing agency pricing all at once in order to uniformly and instantly raise the prices of ebooks is the bad part. Not just one publisher, but several all at once. If it wasn't for Apple the publishers could not have pulled it off at the same instant. Apple just gave them the means to do away with the heavy discounts Amazon was giving. The publishers all agreed that they did not like it, they just could not legally do anything about it. So they gave in and let Apple help them do it illegally (by means of collusion).