Site-wide posts tagged with Price-fixing

A small post on reactions to the DOJ lawsuit, summated by CBS
“Ironically, consumers are likely to win no matter what happens with the case because the self-publishing gate is open and the horses are out of the barn.”
… really? “consumers will win”?
I can quite reliably say that publishers will lose, that’s one thing. But [...]

The US Department of Justice acting against publishers and Apple working under an Agency model seems iffy. Can you count something as price-fixing, if that is the industry standard costing (though not yet discussing publisher inefficiencies in acting in the digital environment), and this, versus an otherwise predatory pricing scheme?
The joke of this legal action [...]