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I fail to see the problem being solved by this lawsuit. I'm sure there's some anti-competitive laws somewhere that have been violated, but I still disagree wit
by crazy1van 15y ago
I fail to see the problem being solved by this lawsuit.
I'm sure there's some anti-competitive laws somewhere that have been violated, but I still disagree with the philosophy behind this action.
Consumers are buying ebooks and ebook readers like never before -- free individuals making a choice of their own free will to pay a certain amount of money for the product.
It is also hard to see how anything could be "anti-competitive" in a market where a lone person could compete by writing a book at home and selling it on their own website with paypal. Think that's an unrealistic example? You probably also thought that about the video games industry 5 years ago with big box stores, gamestops, and steam seemingly controlling all access to the market. Despite all that, a game involving digging blocks out of the ground made millions of dollars and completely side stepped the all the dominating distributors.
Don't under estimate the choices of the consumer and the power of innovative individuals. They will shake things up orders of magnitudes more than a small army of government lawyers.
- jusben1369 15y agoThe problem is that industry executives got together to fix prices and raise them by 20 - 30%. I'm all for innovative people but struggle with the logic of "We're ok with crony capitalism because it drives innovation!" Surely free, transparent markets are better for innovation than manipulated ones?
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- brown9-2 15y agoImagine how much more disruption they would be in this market if a bunch of the largest incumbents weren't illegally colluding with each other to keep prices artificially high.