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Author:  pcernie [ Sun Nov 16, 2014 10:04 pm ]
Post subject:  Amazon and Hachette resolve bitter dispute over price
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30044531

Quote:
According to reports, Amazon had been seeking a larger proportion of the revenue generated from the sale of Hachette's e-books, while also attempting to lower the price of those books.


Surely that goes so far as to be illegal under competition law? Absolutely nobody would be able to compete with Amazon then :?
Author:  jonbwfc [ Sun Nov 16, 2014 10:17 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Amazon and Hachette resolve bitter dispute over price
pcernie wrote:
Surely that goes so far as to be illegal under competition law? Absolutely nobody would be able to compete with Amazon then :?

Well it must be fine, because the US government concluded Apple was being anti-competitive and Amazon wasn't doing anything wrong at all.
Author:  bobbdobbs [ Sat Nov 22, 2014 12:41 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Amazon and Hachette resolve bitter dispute over price
jonbwfc wrote:
pcernie wrote:
Surely that goes so far as to be illegal under competition law? Absolutely nobody would be able to compete with Amazon then :?

Well it must be fine, because the US government concluded Apple was being anti-competitive and Amazon wasn't doing anything wrong at all.

Amazon are doing it publisher by publisher not getting them all together to agree a set of terms at the same time.
Author:  jonbwfc [ Sat Nov 22, 2014 10:04 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Amazon and Hachette resolve bitter dispute over price
bobbdobbs wrote:
Amazon are doing it publisher by publisher not getting them all together to agree a set of terms at the same time.

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?
Author:  timark_uk [ Sat Nov 22, 2014 10:05 pm ]
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Amazon and Hachette bury the hatchet. (8+D

Mark
Author:  bobbdobbs [ Sun Nov 23, 2014 4:42 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Amazon and Hachette resolve bitter dispute over price
jonbwfc wrote:
bobbdobbs wrote:
Amazon are doing it publisher by publisher not getting them all together to agree a set of terms at the same time.

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?

Maybe but Apple went wrong by colluding with the publishers to force a competitor to accept terms that were beneficial to Apple
Author:  jonbwfc [ Sun Nov 23, 2014 6:50 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Amazon and Hachette resolve bitter dispute over price
bobbdobbs wrote:
jonbwfc wrote:
bobbdobbs wrote:
Amazon are doing it publisher by publisher not getting them all together to agree a set of terms at the same time.

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?

Maybe but Apple

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.
Author:  bobbdobbs [ Sun Nov 23, 2014 9:04 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Amazon and Hachette resolve bitter dispute over price
jonbwfc wrote:
bobbdobbs wrote:
jonbwfc wrote:
[quote="bobbdobbs"]
Amazon are doing it publisher by publisher not getting them all together to agree a set of terms at the same time.

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?

Maybe but Apple

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?
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