Apple Found Guilty In E-Book Conspiracy
In a surprise ruling Apple has been found guilty of e-book price fixing.
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In a surprise ruling Apple has been found guilty of e-book price fixing.
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Pretty much the standard. Especially if your fan base is one such that even that PR is unnecessary.Ohlookit said:"We did nothing wrong!"
"We have all this evidence that says you did and you've been found guilty"
". . . I said we did nothing wrong, I didn't say we did nothing illegal. We wanted more money off people buying books, there is nothing wrong about that"
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There's a serpent in the garden.circularlogic88 said:Looks like Apple...just got bit.
Yeah, that made me laugh "We want to break the monopoly...by artificially inflating prices." BRILLIANT!Zachary Amaranth said:Okay, so here's the thing that rubs me: A monopoly generally fixes prices high. If the end result is you raise prices in competing with a monopoly, you're doing something wrong. This is one of the reasons Steam/Origin is such a mess. Any complaints one might have about Steam are at least partially nullified by the further anti-consumer practices of EA. Similarly, if your prices are going up 50%, it's probably not because you're out to break a monopoly.
Then we can convince other manufacturers of paper clips to threaten to pull their products off Amazon if they don't meet our exorbitant price standards! I bet we could get Wal-Mart to back that. Box stores seem to be in trouble.DoPo said:Yeah, that made me laugh "We want to break the monopoly...by artificially inflating prices." BRILLIANT!
I'll no go break the monopoly of the paperclip industry - I'll make my own device for holding paper together and I'll sell it for, like 100 bucks. That'll show them!
*puts on sunglasses*circularlogic88 said:Looks like Apple...just got bit.
Zachary Amaranth" post="6.821582.19853412 said:Okay, so here's the thing that rubs me: A monopoly generally fixes prices high. If the end result is you raise prices in competing with a monopoly, you're doing something wrong. This is one of the reasons Steam/Origin is such a mess. Any complaints one might have about Steam are at least partially nullified by the further anti-consumer practices of EA. Similarly, if your prices are going up 50%, it's probably not because you're out to break a monopoly.
Also, Amazon didn't have a monopoly. Sony at least had a robust market going on. I weighed the two heavily before I threw down with the Kindle, and I mostly did so because I can more imagine Sony going out of the ebook business than Amazon.
I want to be published, for the record. Those prices actually kind of scare me as both a consumer and a would-be creator.
Apple has created a market where a lot of ebooks I've looked for are more expensive than the print version.
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What irritates me about this situation is that it is an attempt to form a cartel, rather than break a monopoly. The publishers are well aware that they have a problem; ebooks have just about slayed the mega bookstores that had evicerated in turn the mom and pops. You smell blood in the water, you strike, but the moves to form this dinosaur squad under apple strikes me the wrong way and I don't like it.
I'm not sure what amazons self publication policies are, or the real potential for self publication in today's market. Intuition tells me that getting more per book is good, and feelings tell me publishers probably aren't great for the little guy, but I'm not in that business.