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Originally Posted by darryl
Not a very reasonable position. You are entitled to your opinion, but we have been over this many times. Amazon made a complaint in writing pointing out a breach of the law. A very straight forward, flagrant and stupid breach, and almost a textbook price fixing conspiracy. Which is of course what the trial court found and each successive court affirmed
I understand your personal feeling, which is just that, a feeling. How would this furious competition take place if prices were fixed at the retail level? Given that the DOJ only succeeded in averting the retail price fixing rather than stopping it, and that we now have it anyway and have had now for some time, what would be materially different?
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And I keep telling you that you should try researching US anti-trust law a bit as well as the various pieces of the case that came out after the initial finding. Try reading Bork's textbook on US anti-trust law, The Antitrust Paradox. There are two basic philosophies to anti-trust in US legal circles. Cote followed the more restrictive approach, which is what Bork argues against.
The material difference is that Apple would have likely jumped fully into the ebook business, thus giving more competition. B&N has proven to be fairly incompetent, but Apple has show with their music store that they can do online digital stores quite well. Instead, Apple decided that it just wasn't worth the effort and retreated into a minimal ebook store. It appears that approach is about to change with Apple's new revamped ebook store and book app. We will see how much they push it.