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Old 01-31-2010, 07:01 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
Actually, Amazon has laid out a perfect defense against federal price-fixing charges.
And set up MacMillan and any other publishers that follow them for a nice antitrust investigation.
This could get interesting...
Not really. The agency model completely eliminates any question of price fixing in a legal sense. In an agency model, Amazon is not buying a product and then reselling it. It is acting as the seller's agent, thus the seller is not restraining the agent's right of trade in any way by setting a price. The publisher is, in essence, selling to the customer with Amazon providing a service in return for a commission.
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