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Originally Posted by shalym
So you really, truly, in your heart of hearts don't believe that there is a problem with competitors meeting at a restaurant and deciding that they are all going to set prices in the same way? You really don't think that's breaking Anti-trust laws???
Shari
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But that's not what happened. They met together and decided that they were going to hold out for the agency model. They didn't decide that all hard back books would be X dollars and all paperback books would be Y dollars and all ebooks would be Z dollars. Is that anti trust? Maybe yes, maybe no, as far as I can tell there is a fair amount of debate about it.
Was Apple using the offer of agency pricing to get into the ebook business in the face of what at the time was a dominate player (90% of the market at the time) anti-trust? I find that very hard to swallow.