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Originally Posted by Fbone
Amazon's Agency offer would have been price fixing also. Executives at the major publishers are saying that the agreements are essentially the same.
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What was the offer?
And even if, for the sake of discussion, we just take the word of the executives accused of coluding with Apple and assume that Amazon made the same offer ("You all throw in with us and set these same higher prices"), how would that be relevant? Does someone else's TRYING to do it reduce the wrongness of Apple's doing it?
And, by the way, I know nothing about the alleged Amazon offer, but if it was as you suggest, wouldn't that posted email from Steve Jobs above have included another option? Like "Nah, don't take THEIR offer to fix prices higher, take OURS instead...it's better."
On the contrary, that letter said that the alternative was to keep dealing with Amazon as they were.