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Originally Posted by pwalker8
You mean like Amazon when Apple was coming into the ebook market? You did know that the Big 5 and Apple anti-trust suit was brought about by Amazon presenting a white paper to the justice department, didn't you?
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The usual nonsense. "When Apple was coming into the ebook market". A banal phrase hiding behind it a grubby conspiracy. Apple could have come into the ebook market legally. But it only wanted to come into the market if it could make its usual healthy margin. It did not want to enter into the market as it was, where it would have had to compete with Amazon on price. It wanted to remake the market to its liking. And so it colluded with the large publishers. Colluded to raise prices (though not to the level wanted by some of its greedy co-conspirators). Colluded to ensure the absence of price competition at the retail level.
To use a so-topical in the US gun analogy, Amazon may have provided the bullets which the DOJ fired (and if I may stretch the analogy, unfortunately only wounded and did not kill). On the other hand, in AU's approaches to the DOJ they have provided only blanks, and the DOJ does not so far appear to be too keen on going into a battle not its own loaded only with blanks.