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Counter point - that none of the Big 5 felt they could cut off Amazon over the $9.99 ebook price point should be sufficient evidence of Amazon's “monopoly-like” power. Did they collude...well, they were convicted. WHY did they collude? Amazon's monopoly-ish power in the ebook market.
Never tested...the publishers didn’t sue Amazon. Amazon's practices weren’t allowed to be considered in the case. But...Amazon's destructive efforts would have been set in stone if left to the long slow process of courts.
Consider how Samsung copied Apple and eventually lost and had to pay huge fine. But by then Samsung had all they wanted and the huge fine was nothing compared to the business opportunity.
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