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Originally Posted by pwalker8
It came out a year after the initial trial that Amazon lawyers wrote the initial DOJ brief.
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You bring out this tired old chestnut again! Amazon lawyers did not write the initial DOJ brief. Amazon made a complaint which was apparently comprehensive and may have formed the basis for the DOJ's action. There is nothing wrong with this whatsoever. It is the DOJ's decision to take action, and the Court's decision as to whether that action is made out.
We only occasionally agree, but I do sometimes enjoy and even profit from your perspectives. However, you often take a somewhat esoteric view of various aspects of your legal system and its workings, which I will not always bother to seek to correct. I enjoy participating in these forums, but my time is limited and my posts usually too long-winded.
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Originally Posted by pwalker8
The fact that Amazon was perfectly fine with agency pricing once they got Apple out of the way and Cote's order expired, which is why we now have agency pricing, seems to be ignored.
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No. Not ignored. Amazon simply hoisted the conspirators by their own petards. They fought against a system where they enjoyed the benefit of the increased sales at the more reasonable price point whilst still making the margin associated with their own inflated price point! Amazon was never going to subsidise this forever, and by that stage had no reason to do so. No publisher came to them after the order expired asking for a wholesale type contract. They all wanted agency, and Amazon obliged. It was a beautiful thing to watch. High tradpub e-book prices bleeding sales to Indies and Amazon imprints. Discounted Hardbacks at prices around the same as e-books. Fantastic!
Traditional publishers finally seem to be approaching the realisation that they will have to discount to compete with Indies, but now of course must themselves bear the costs of such discounting, no doubt passing on as much of these costs as they can to their poor abused authors. It is quite interesting to watch them learn the pricing game. They are already good at extracting top dollar from new releases, but are now experimenting to find the optimum way to pick up also the demand at lower prices. At their own cost!