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Originally Posted by eschwartz
That is a very novel (okay, not really new at all) suggestion that they weren't engaged in price fixing.
That would certainly explain how ebook prices rose across the board in lockstep.
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Actually they were not. They simply insisted that the individual publishers set the price rather than the reseller. This is very different than price fixing.
I would also point out that Apple presented evidence in court that the ebook prices actually went down across the board. It was only a select few (i.e. the best seller type books that Amazon was pricing at $9.99) that actually went up. This is part of their appeal.