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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Apple and the price fix 5 did indeed hurt competition. Because of their Agency ways, they drove out a number of eBook stores. They drove out Fictionwise, BooksOnBoard, and Diesel eBooks just to name three. Fictionwise and BooksOnBoard had business models that were not able to be sustained under agency rules and because of that, they were unable to keep the businesses going. Fictionwise and BooksOnBoard were good stores to do business with. In fact, with Fictionwise, I was able to save a lot of money on eBooks. BooksOnBoard a close second sometimes. Fictionwise was even competitive with Amazon. So yes, The Apple Gang did indeed drive others out of business and no, they did not make things more competitive. In fact, all they did was drive away the little guys who had their own ways of doing business that would no longer work under agency.
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You are saying that Apple drove a number of ebook stores out of business? Really? That's a pretty wild assertion. B&N purchased fictionwise in 2009 and the web store was closed by B&N in 2012. Booksonboard went out of business in 2013. Diesel eBooks went out of business in 2014. The Apple ebook store and agency pricing didn't go into effect until 2010. Judge Cote ruled on the case in July of 2013. The timeline just doesn't seem to match your narrative. How could Apple cause fictionwise to go out of business months before Apple started talking to the publishers, much less open an ebook store?