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Originally Posted by John F
Gotcha. So if wholesalers don't like the way retailers behave, just go ahead and criminally/civily collude. Let's get rid of all those laws and let the companies decide what's best.  |
I think the law is fine and that the publishers should have just pulled their books from Amazon. Of course, they would have needed courage to do so individually.
They waited way too long until Amazon already had so much power.
It was only Apple that could possibly change the dynamic. But the publishers and Apple lost.
And Amazon got what they wanted. They subsidized their pricey gadget and ran the competiton out of business long enough for it to no longer matter when the publishers got pricing power.
By that time, the Kindle was able to be sold as the loss leader and Amazon could just take its cut of the publisher's setting the price.
All the Independant stores lost the ability to compete on price. All the competing devices except the Kobo are gone.
But at least we can be happy Apple lost