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pcernie
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30044531Surely that goes so far as to be illegal under competition law? Absolutely nobody would be able to compete with Amazon then 
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jonbwfc
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Well it must be fine, because the US government concluded Apple was being anti-competitive and Amazon wasn't doing anything wrong at all.
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bobbdobbs
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Amazon are doing it publisher by publisher not getting them all together to agree a set of terms at the same time. _________________Finally joined Flickr
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jonbwfc
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OK, so if Amazon makes each individual publisher accept the same set of egregious terms one after another by use of it's overwhelming market advantage, that's not anti-competitive at all then?
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timark_uk
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Amazon and Hachette bury the hatchet. (8+D
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bobbdobbs
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Maybe but Apple went wrong by colluding with the publishers to force a competitor to accept terms that were beneficial to Apple _________________Finally joined Flickr
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jonbwfc
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I'll just stop you there. The whole jist of your argument seems to be that 'because Apple did something wrong what Amazon are doing is OK' Two points 1) Apple were fined for what they did. 2) That argument is bollocks anyway.
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bobbdobbs
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I'll just stop you there. The whole jist of your argument seems to be that 'because Apple did something wrong what Amazon are doing is OK' Two points 1) Apple were fined for what they did. 2) That argument is bollocks anyway.[/quote] Your saying it's egregious terms if they were so bad why sign? _________________Finally joined Flickr
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