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Looking at the current price of hardcover NY times best sellers on Amazon (first 2 pages), the prices range from $14.02 - $17.39. |
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Yes, loss leaders are legal. But contrary to some others here who pound the tables and scream that any practice that doesn't result in them getting cheap eBooks is illegal, that's not the argument. The argument is that Amazon's attempt at gutting the publishers' business model was a shot across the bow that the publishers couldn't ignore and the response was going to be either agency pricing or time windowing the release of eBooks. If Amazon had been willing to negotiate in good faith, perhaps they could have reached a compromise, but Amazon was using the Walmart business model which is to strong arm the suppliers whenever they could get away with it.
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And the end result after Apple and the publishers got slapped by the courts was essentially the same as what they achieved via collusion, sadly.
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Apple paying $450 million is probably just a drop in the bucket for them.
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The publishers eventually got their way because there is absolutely nothing illegal about agency pricing. Once Amazon got Apple out of the way and the Kindle store was firmly established, they really didn't care about agency pricing. Yes, they did try to play hardball with the first publisher whose contract came up, but they got a lot of bad press by their bullying tactics and Cote wouldn't ride to their rescue a second time, so why bother? The publishers got what they wanted and Amazon got what they wanted (a deep pocketed competitor shuffled off to the sideline). That is why you don't get all eBooks dirt cheap, not because Apple and the publishers = bad. |
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The lawsuit against Apple was on the novel legal theory put out by Amazon that Apple was guilty of conspiracy by agreeing to use agency pricing with the various publishers. The publishers without doubt did conspire, though at least one judge thought they were justified in doing so. |
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