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Penguin settles in Apple ebook deal
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Author:  pcernie [ Mon Apr 22, 2013 9:24 pm ]
Post subject:  Penguin settles in Apple ebook deal
http://www.techradar.com/news/portable- ... ng-1146089

I hope the Yanks won't mess about :twisted:
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Tue Apr 23, 2013 12:04 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Penguin settles in Apple ebook deal
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"Penguin's position that it has done nothing wrong remains unchanged and the company continues to believe that the agency pricing model operates in the best interests of consumers and authors.

I do not see the problem. Apart from the

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The deal included a contract that prevented other retailers such as Amazon from selling the publisher's ebooks at prices lower than that found on Apple's iBookstore.

which was clearly anticompetitive, but nothing different from what Amazon does on its store. The problem will now be that if Apple exit the ebook market there will now only be Amazon and their monopoly. There may be others but they have such little share that Amazon has an effective monopoly of ebooks and readers.
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