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Originally Posted by tomsem
Yeah that too. Both things are true. But DOJ should not have bothered, the market took care of it. But like the other parties, they didn't know what they were doing either.
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Maybe? Did the collusion force ebook stores that discounted to close? Is that "what the market took care of"?
For example, looks at the timelines of fictionwise and the Apple/publishers collusion:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictionwise
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United...v._Apple_(2012)
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... Amazon learned about the coming deals between the publishers and Apple on January 18, 2010. ... The Big Six publishers called each other over 100 times in the week before signing the agreement. Steve Jobs even emailed James Murdoch, HarperCollins' parent company News Corp's CEO, to persuade him to have HarperCollins join. ...
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... In March 2010, Fictionwise discontinued its "Buywise Club" which, in exchange for a membership fee, had offered discounted pricing for all their ebooks ...
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