This is really getting nit-picky, but I don't think you understood me on a couple of points.
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Originally Posted by Pardoz
I don't see how "Sell through us for $15 instead of through Amazon for $10" classifies as anything other than pushing for higher prices, myself.
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But I said this:
"It isn't clear that Apple was pushing for higher prices, even from that article (assuming these rumors are an accurate representation of what really happened). We don't know what the publishers were offering - they could have wanted to set the ebook prices to the same as hardcover prices. "
The implication being that $15 is more reasonable (and cheaper) than $25, although I thought that was clear. Again, Apple has no motivation to kill the ebook market. It gains them nothing but potential ill-will and headaches. Better to ignore it completely. The perpetrator needs motivation in a murder case.
Believe whatever you like. I am still not convinced that some vague, second-hand version of the negotiating position of one side in a multi-party agreement implicates Apple as the architect of this mess.