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Even if Amazon never got into selling ebooks, Apple would have wanted the same terms: a 30% cut of the sale price, and sane pricing for ebooks. It matches their
by bjustin 13y ago
Even if Amazon never got into selling ebooks, Apple would have wanted the same terms: a 30% cut of the sale price, and sane pricing for ebooks. It matches their terms for music[1] and they take the same 30% cut for apps.
I wonder what would have happened if Apple never mentioned or alluded to Amazon in licensing discussions. It seems like mentions of Amazon are included in all of the damning evidence.
[1] I don't know about TV shows and movies, but I imagine it is the same for them as well.
- josephlord 13y agoI think as long as they were acting as the conduit for pricing information and plans between competitors they were in a risky position (or were at least putting the competitors in a risky position). The talk about their ability to raise/increase prices looked fairly incriminating to my eyes. What I wonder is if they could have achieved the same result with less explicit talk about what the other publishers were doing and without discussing it as an opportunity to raise prices but to set whatever prices they wanted.