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Originally Posted by JSWolf
pwalker8, you have not once agreed with anyone that Apple and the price fix six did indeed drive smaller eBook stores out of business such as Fictionwise, BooksOnBoard, and Diesel eBooks.
If you think Apple and the price fix six did not do so, please explain how that did not happen when it actually did happen?
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No, I haven't because they were not accused of price fixing. The publishers were accused of agreeing to hold the line on agency pricing and Apple is accused of conspiring with them.
No, I haven't agreed that Apple and the publishers drove smaller eBook stores out of business. For one thing, Fictionwise was bought out _before_ Apple got in the ebook business and before the publishers got Amazon to agree to agency pricing. I find it very unlikely that Apple, the # 3 ebook store behind Amazon and B&N (who bought Fictionwise) drove anyone out of business. It's a lot more likely that if anyone drove them out of business, it was Amazon with their loss leader pricing.
My personal belief is that those companies went out of business and Sony pulled out of the ebook store business as part of the normal course of the definition of the ebook market. The creative destruction involved in the free market occurs in pretty much every line of business. According to the Small Business Association, 8 out of 10 new businesses fail in their first three years. I don't know why people seem to think that ebook stores are somehow magically exempt from those hard facts.