DOJ says Apple responsible for setting up, executing e-book price fixing

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  • Reply 81 of 86
    solipsismxsolipsismx Posts: 19,566member
    jeffdm wrote: »
    I think they do, and buyers pay extra for that in the cost of the device. I don't see why that cost has to be embedded into the media, and not the device.

    When iBookstore first launched there were comparisons to the same content between Amazon's ebooks. iBookstore showed much better structure. I seem to recall some complaints of Amazon's ebooks being poorly typed in or using OCR that created excessive errors and other abnormalities in the books. I haven't heard anything for a long time so perhaps those issues were blown out of proportion or merely resolved.
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  • Reply 82 of 86
    mdriftmeyermdriftmeyer Posts: 7,503member
    TR is famous for Trust Busting and leveling the playing field where it was proven factually correct that level rules of engagement is the only way any sense of capitalism can develop. If anyone thinks laissez-faire capitalism works then they are just plain ignorant minds of world history.

    Self-regulation is a pipe-dream. Nothing but oligarchs surface in such deluded fantasies.
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  • Reply 83 of 86
    magic_almagic_al Posts: 325member
    This case is unbelievably dumb. It's so dumb, apparently the only way for the DOJ to save face is to hope they win it, which would make it officially not dumb even if it is actually dumb.
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  • Reply 84 of 86
    v5vv5v Posts: 1,357member

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by hill60 View Post



    I hear a train whistle, the railway is ready to depart.



    All the way to the gulags, in the Soviet Socialist United States of America, where Government regulation controls the market.


     


    You WISH. Maybe if it did you wouldn't have had millions of people suddenly lose their homes or a world-wide economic upheaval while unscrupulous, unethical traders took home literally billions in bonuses.

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  • Reply 85 of 86
    mj1970mj1970 Posts: 9,002member

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer View Post



    TR is famous for Trust Busting and leveling the playing field where it was proven factually correct that level rules of engagement is the only way any sense of capitalism can develop. If anyone thinks laissez-faire capitalism works then they are just plain ignorant minds of world history.



    Self-regulation is a pipe-dream. Nothing but oligarchs surface in such deluded fantasies.


     


    So kind of you to share and pass your opinion off as it is were fact.


     


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  • Reply 86 of 86
    hill60hill60 Posts: 6,992member
    v5v wrote: »
    You WISH. Maybe if it did you wouldn't have had millions of people suddenly lose their homes or a world-wide economic upheaval while unscrupulous, unethical traders took home literally billions in bonuses.

    So the DoJ is acting like that Dutch boy with his finger in the hole in a dyke, grandstanding on the railroading of Apple except the dyke has gone and the US is awash in a sea of pain.

    I hardly think a couple of bucks added to the cost of some ebooks is a high priority to the homeless.

    Might sell one of my houses here and buy a few in the US, the market won't be dead forever.
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