Thread: Literary elites v. Amazon: yes, it's class warfare
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Old 10-06-2014, 04:28 PM   #204
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Originally Posted by Hitch View Post
.... What they are NOT allowed to do, under US law (and the law of most civilized countries) is form a conspiracy under which they control the pricing of ALL books, stifling all competition. ....

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Really, this is just a lot of thrashing about, for no reason. As stated previously, the publishers can do ANY DAMN THING that they please.
Obviously the publishers didn't want to control the prices of all books (even if you use capital letters), but only of their own.
And the publishers aren't allowed to do whatever they please, that's Amazon who were given carte blanche, even if Amazon controls 90% of the ebook market and the publishers don't.

Again, why didn't Amazon simply tell those "obsolete" publishers to buzz off and concentrated on smaller publishers and their own publications? That's perhaps because their own publications don't amount to much?
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