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 |
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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There is a big thread (or two) about this in the news section of MR.
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Is corporate greed run rampant? Jack |
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12-07-2011, 03:17 AM | #5 |
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Corporate greed has always been running rampant
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12-08-2011, 12:58 PM | #6 |
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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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