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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
We have laws for that. In the mean time, Amazon's in the driver's seat.
BTW, publishers do have other options. They don't have to sell to Amazon. No one is forcing them to do so. They're quite free to take their wares elsewhere.
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The law is quite a flexible thing, particularly so when government agencies which are in charge of upholding the law have a huge amount of discretion.
Saying that publishers can just go elsewhere is rather pat. The publishers cannot ignore Amazon. That's as silly as saying that Amazon could just have ignored the publishers that were part of the agency pricing agreement. Yet the government has decided to punish the cartel while it ignores the market dominance of Amazon.