

This judge will oversee the trial starting June 3












Source: Reuters

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Triple damages for wasting time
By tayb on 5/24/2013 2:00:58 PM , Rating: 2
I hope they get hit with triple or quadruple damages for wasting time and being too arrogant to settle. They have emails from Steve Jobs discussing the price fixing. Fucking scumbags.

RE: Triple damages for wasting time
By Motoman on 5/24/2013 2:39:51 PM , Rating: 2
I think there's precedent for "treble" damages for things like contempt of court and willful obstruction of justice.

RE: Triple damages for wasting time
By dmoney13 on 5/24/13, Rating: -1
By Solandri on 5/24/2013 10:44:19 PM , Rating: 2
amazon is the real scum here. they control upwards of 90% of the ebook market, yet once a worthy competitor enters the fray they work with the gov't to bring a case against them?

If someone controls 90% of the market and they prevent you from selling stuff at a lower price than them, they get an anti-trust investigation.

If someone controls 90% of the market, and you implement a change which forces them to raise their prices, you get an anti-trust investigation.

See how that works? Actions by sellers which benefit sellers (prevent prices from dropping, or force competitors to raise prices) are worthy of anti-trust investigation. Actions by sellers which benefit buyers do not warrant anti-trust investigation. (The only tricky case is dumping, which benefits buyers in the short term, but hurts them in the long-term.)

amazon is destroying the publishing industry on a daily basis. big brother incarnate

If Amazon's terms were so onerous it would've destroyed the publishing industry, then Apple wouldn't have had to do anything. The publishers would've naturally and individually demanded higher prices, enough so that Amazon would've had to comply in order to continue selling ebooks. That's how the market works. Nobody held a gun to the publishers' heads and forced them to sell to Amazon. They agreed to do so of their own free will.

The publishing industry initially tried to foist upon the public ebook prices which matched (or in some cases were higher than) physical book prices. If the current publishing industry is so precariously constructed that correcting those ridiculous ebook prices, as Amazon has fought to do, will result in "destroying" them, then they deserve to be destroyed. Get them out of the picture ASAP so that a better, more fit publishing industry can grow up to replace them.

It's business. Compete, or die.

By sigmatau on 5/27/2013 10:33:08 PM , Rating: 1
You are an idiot. Raising prices via Apple's conspiracy is what you consider good? Are you a publisher? If not, then you should have the exact opposite point of view.

