A bit more from _Behemoth_
Mar. 1st, 2023 06:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutI swear, I’m stopping after this. This isn’t a screwed up name.
“Amazon retaliated, removing the “buy button” from all titles published by one of the big five, Macmillan. That made Macmillan books hard to find and hence buy, which in turn generated customer complaints and negative press.”
Um, it actually made it NOT possible to buy at all on Amazon.
“The final result was a draw favoring Amazon. The agency model stuck with four of the big five publishers (although the biggest, Penguin Random House, still uses the wholesale model) but the publishers and Apple were eventually caught up in a Department of Justice antitrust suit — which claimed that they had conspired to raise prices — and paid heavily to settle it.”
This is the wikipedia page about the suit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Apple_Inc.
Apple _lost_, found to be in violation of the Sherman Act. Apple and the publishers all had to pay large-ish amounts AND they had a consent decree saying they couldn’t use the agency model for 2 years.
This is a profoundly dishonest, error-ridden book, based on the free sample.
“Amazon retaliated, removing the “buy button” from all titles published by one of the big five, Macmillan. That made Macmillan books hard to find and hence buy, which in turn generated customer complaints and negative press.”
Um, it actually made it NOT possible to buy at all on Amazon.
“The final result was a draw favoring Amazon. The agency model stuck with four of the big five publishers (although the biggest, Penguin Random House, still uses the wholesale model) but the publishers and Apple were eventually caught up in a Department of Justice antitrust suit — which claimed that they had conspired to raise prices — and paid heavily to settle it.”
This is the wikipedia page about the suit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Apple_Inc.
Apple _lost_, found to be in violation of the Sherman Act. Apple and the publishers all had to pay large-ish amounts AND they had a consent decree saying they couldn’t use the agency model for 2 years.
This is a profoundly dishonest, error-ridden book, based on the free sample.