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Originally Posted by CommonReader
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.
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When Amazon decides to break the law, govt agencies will start scrutinizing and punishing them as well.
As for Amazons dominance in the market it is dominant because WE THE PEOPLE gave it to them because of their excellent prices and service! When those two facts change, we the people will stop giving them our money.
This is not rocket science or any great conspiracy, so either remove your tin foil hat and stick to the point of this thread or retreat to your bunker and wait out the apocalypse!