05-25-2012, 08:09 PM | #46 | |
Grand Sorcerer
Posts: 27,569
Karma: 193191846
Join Date: Jan 2010
Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD
|
Quote:
|
|
05-26-2012, 06:57 AM | #47 |
Grand Sorcerer
Posts: 7,199
Karma: 63764653
Join Date: Feb 2009
Device: Kobo Glo HD
|
I think Apple is taking a page from kid's playbook:
Me: "Johnny, why is Sally crying?" Johnny: "I didn't do anything, and I for sure didn't hit her!!! But if I did hit her, she definitely deserved it and she definitely hit me first! You're Mean!" |
Advert | |
|
05-26-2012, 02:40 PM | #48 | |
PHD in Horribleness
Posts: 2,320
Karma: 23599604
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: In the ironbound section, near avenue L
Device: Just a whole bunch. I guess I am a collector now.
|
Quote:
Juries only look bad if you refuse to look objectively at the quality of performance the alternative delivers in practice, rather than the theoretical one may wish it exhibeted. |
|
05-26-2012, 04:02 PM | #49 | |
Is that a sandwich?
Posts: 8,189
Karma: 100500000
Join Date: Jun 2010
Device: Nook Glowlight Plus
|
Quote:
Just choosing a jury will be difficult also. The DOJ attorneys may exclude those owning an iPad or Mac. The other side those with Kindles or users of a Kindle app. |
|
05-26-2012, 04:36 PM | #50 | |
Wizard
Posts: 2,016
Karma: 2838487
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Washington, DC
Device: Ipad, IPhone
|
Quote:
This may be surprising to Mobile Readers, but the vast majority of Americans don't own an EBR or Ios device. Jury selection will not be a problem on that issue. The juries should be able to understand the issues. These issues aren't as technical or complex as the issues in the Oracle patent case, and apparently the jury did OK there. Civil jury verdicts can be appealed from , reversed, and modified, as well. |
|
Advert | |
|
05-26-2012, 05:05 PM | #51 | |
Omnivorous
Posts: 3,281
Karma: 27978909
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Rural NW Oregon
Device: Kindle Voyage, Kindle Fire HD, Kindle 3, KPW1
|
Quote:
|
|
05-26-2012, 05:17 PM | #52 | |
Wizard
Posts: 2,016
Karma: 2838487
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Washington, DC
Device: Ipad, IPhone
|
Quote:
Do you disagree? |
|
05-26-2012, 06:14 PM | #53 | |
Connoisseur
Posts: 65
Karma: 573682
Join Date: Jan 2010
Device: DX, iPad 2, Kindle 3, Nook simple touch
|
Quote:
$14 to $15 for an ebook that has been out years and sells cheaper in print form? |
|
05-26-2012, 07:56 PM | #54 | |
Guru
Posts: 777
Karma: 6356004
Join Date: Jan 2012
Device: Kobo Touch
|
Quote:
In fact it's one of the most ruthless, gouging, greedy organizations on the planet, built in the image of its founder (or the founder who didn't actually make the first Apple anyway). |
|
05-26-2012, 08:16 PM | #55 | |
Wizard
Posts: 2,888
Karma: 5875940
Join Date: Dec 2007
Device: PRS505, 600, 350, 650, Nexus 7, Note III, iPad 4 etc
|
Quote:
|
|
05-26-2012, 09:49 PM | #56 | |
Geographically Restricted
Posts: 2,629
Karma: 14933353
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Perth, Australia
Device: Sony PRS-T3, Kindle Voyage, iPad Air2, Nexus7v2
|
Quote:
Yet there are plenty of people who paint Amazon in the opposite way. resplendent with horns trident and cloven hoofs, Amazon is the great and evil organisation out to eat your children. Apple and the BPH's are jealous of the success of Amazon as a business and terrified of the changes Amazon is fronting. Apple in particular are even more so, determined that they are the company to dominate the ebook market. Hence Job's determination at the time to wrest market share away by colluding with the BPH's on fixing prices to stop Amazon selling ebooks at prices customers snapped up. If Apple could not destroy a company by endless patent suits, then this was the best way forward. The BHP's love the agency pricing scheme. It allows them to maintain the same business structure they have had for two hundred years. No change is good, at least in their eyes and especially if Amazon, that evil game changer, is throttled. I look forward to this trial unfolding. The DoJ's case, contrary to some true agency price disciples, is strong. Else, why would three big publishing houses settle to avoid the fire and pain ahead? |
|
05-27-2012, 01:05 AM | #57 | |
Wizard
Posts: 2,016
Karma: 2838487
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Washington, DC
Device: Ipad, IPhone
|
Quote:
And apparently some people paint BPHS as the ones with horns. Hey, maybe all of these follks acting in own economic self interest. Maybe you might want to try that approach. |
|
05-27-2012, 01:20 AM | #58 |
Geographically Restricted
Posts: 2,629
Karma: 14933353
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Perth, Australia
Device: Sony PRS-T3, Kindle Voyage, iPad Air2, Nexus7v2
|
When economic self interest sinks to price fixing and collusion in an attempt to wrestle market share, then the BPH's should feel the full weight of that laws consequences.
|
05-27-2012, 04:54 AM | #59 | |
Interested Bystander
Posts: 3,725
Karma: 19728152
Join Date: Jun 2008
Device: Note 4, Kobo One
|
Quote:
|
|
05-27-2012, 07:16 AM | #60 | |
Wizard
Posts: 2,888
Karma: 5875940
Join Date: Dec 2007
Device: PRS505, 600, 350, 650, Nexus 7, Note III, iPad 4 etc
|
Quote:
|
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Apple re-"invents" Xerox's "Location based services" | kartu | News | 9 | 11-20-2011 01:21 PM |
Free anthology: "Other Sides" | MeiLin | Self-Promotions by Authors and Publishers | 0 | 10-15-2010 12:57 AM |
Real competition with the jb/jbl... Augen's "The Book" | jblitereader | Ectaco jetBook | 6 | 06-10-2010 03:23 PM |
Let's have a "Pimp My MobileRead" competition | frabjous | Lounge | 55 | 11-25-2009 02:13 AM |