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Originally Posted by leebase
It's exactly the same MFN clause that folks here roundly criticized Apple for. But nowhere did Apple claim they would take their cut from the original instead of the discounted price.
Folks here were upset that there wasn't competition based on price due to Apple. Well, there is no competition to Amazon on price either. The difference lay only in who got to set that price.
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No, it is not the same.
Amazon's policy doesn't fix consumer prices: they only fix *their* cut at what they and the publisher *agreed to* in their contract. The publishers (and other retailers) can still sell at any price they want, anywhere else, at any time. All Amazon is saying is "we agreed on a fixed fee and I will charge that fee regardless of the selling price."
Fixing service fees is perfectly legal for everybody. Fixing prices for consumers across retailers is not legal for anybody.
Again: antitrust law exists to protect consumers, not companies.