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Originally Posted by Robotech_Master
Apple colluded with the major publishers to force e-book prices to go up from every store, so every consumer paid too much for those e-books no matter where they got them. As a result, Apple has to pay out a bunch of refund money to people who bought those e-books from any store to make up for the extra money they had to pay for them.
The major publishers paid out some money a few years ago when they settled to avoid trial. Apple went to trial, so it gets to pay a whole lot more money.
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Like the man said, you are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts. Apple was convicted of anti-trust violations for agreeing to allow the publishers to set the prices, a perfectly legal matter called agency pricing, rather let the book seller set the prices. That is a factual statement of what happened. Asserting that they colluded to force e-book prices to go up from every store and that consumers paid too much is pure opinion.