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Didn’t Apple lose an anti-trust lawsuit for plotting to do exactly this before the launch of the Books store?

• theshrike79 6y ago
  Yea, they lost for doing something Amazon was doing and is still doing :D
• canuckintime 6y ago
  No. Apple plotted with the biggest 5 book publishers to enforce a 30% commission not just on the Apple Book store but all other ebook stores as well. This new request is by a consortium of independent book sellers, authors that the App Store and Apple Book store commission rates should match
  • shuckles 6y ago
    I thought the key proposal was changing to an agency business model where Apple would charge a commission and publishers would set prices, as opposed to Amazon’s status quo at the time where Amazon would both set prices and their own fees.
    • canuckintime 6y ago
      The key problematic proposal was not the business model per se (the agency model was left largely in place even after the anti-trust was lost and punitive measures applied), it was Apple coordinating the publisher oligopoly to force Amazon and other ebook stores to switch their business models in concert.