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Admitting guilt in the US must almost certainly lead to guilt in the EU case as well, and the EU is punitive in punishing cartel actions. |
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I think that the potential exposure to liability is considerable, both in the EU and in the USA. Everyone's playing for high stakes, here.
As to image and spin, the general public is hardly aware of this action -just that the DOJ is suing Apple and some publishing companies over something to do with ebooks. People on this forum are paying much more attention than the average ebook buyer, who frankly is OK with agency pricing. ( People on this forum predicted that "no one" would buy ebooks at the higher "agency prices"- but people overwhelmingly did so .) The DOJ complaint painted the defendants in the darkest colors, and the impending defense response will paint them in the purest white. The truth will be more nuanced. An any case, the I don't think the imge of either Apple or the publishers will take a big hit over this. Their profits will take a big hit, though, if they lose. Last edited by stonetools; 05-15-2012 at 10:44 PM. |
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I'm just saying that he could have been saying, "if you do this then this will happen" but we can't know either way since he isn't here to answer for what his meaning was. And it is in bad taste (IMO) for them to attack a dead man who can't speak in his own defense. I mean if you were to die and someone then accused you of something do you think that would be fair? If someone is to be accused of something let it be when they are able to answer their accusers back.
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Nobody's attacking Steve Jobs; they're interpreting the actions of the former head of Apple. Since the current company still honors the contracts he made, they're stuck with trying to stand behind his words. |
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None of the conspiring CEOs, alive or dead, is at any personal risk. |
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That only confirms that people are gullible and are less and less able to think for themselves...
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Heck, I bought books at Agency Prices. If there is a book that I want to read and I am ok with the price, I will buy it.
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And I've skipped a fair number of books that were *considerably* more expensive then their paper counterparts. And I will continue to do so. |
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The evidence is very strong on the DOJ side. Last edited by kennyc; 05-15-2012 at 04:44 PM. |
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Jobs? interesting indeed.
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Just got a couple of old James Herbert books for £1 each and SFGateway seems to have settled on £2.99 as a price (Just reading Fools by Pat Cadigan at the moment, needs much proofreading, although with all the intentional disconnect and grammer quirks in the book I can see how a proof reader would give up with a headache ![]() So, personally, I'm all for agency prices at the moment ![]() |
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And now, news from the *third* front--the Class action lawsuit:
Apple and the Publishers had asked the suit be tossed out. The judge refused and... Well... http://paidcontent.org/2012/05/15/ju...=Google+Reader Quote:
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Are they being charged with accessory to conspiracy to collude to fix prices? I'm not trying to be difficult, I really just don't understand. |
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