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Old 12-06-2011, 11:51 AM   #1
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Ebook price fixing investigation in Europe.
Very interesting. There's a big investigation in Europe going at the moment about price fixing of ebooks.
And about time too!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ing-probe.html
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Old 12-06-2011, 12:05 PM   #2
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I agree, and if there is any success, hopefully it will pass on to our part of the world as well.
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Old 12-06-2011, 02:15 PM   #3
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There is a big thread (or two) about this in the news section of MR.
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Very interesting. There's a big investigation in Europe going at the moment about price fixing of ebooks.
And about time too!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ing-probe.html
Does anyone remember when the ebook concept first started we all loved the lower prices on the book due to the fact that a forest was not decimated...

Is corporate greed run rampant?

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Corporate greed has always been running rampant
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DOJ is now having a look into this as well: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/tech...-industry.html
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