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Originally Posted by eschwartz
You seem to have ignored every word I said besides for "Apple ... illegal".
I suggest you reread my statement, you might learn something.
Or at least answer the points I made.
To wit: Whether Amazon had an illegal monopoly is inconsequential -- Apple is still not permitted to take the law into their own hands.
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No, I didn't. In several posts, I pointed out that Apple did not take the law into their own hands, i.e. engage in a per se violation. The issue isn't that Amazon had an illegal monopoly (which I am not claiming by the way. One can have a monopoly and not be illegal). The true issue is did Apple's (and the 5 publishers) help competition or harm it. It seems fairly straight forward to me that introducing a new ebook store with strong backing increases competition and the health of the market in a situation where one ebook store (Amazon) has 90 percent of the market.
I know that few here wish to read Bork's Anittrust Paradox, but here is a link that gives a fair summary of Bork's argument. The author of the article is an anti-trust lawyer.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/ar...robert-h-bork/