Where does Amazon's market influence fit into this picture?
A poster below offered two valid scenarios from opposite angles:
1) Prices were illegally raised by Apple and publishers colluding in an anti-competive way
2) Prices were artificially lowered by Amazon's pricing scheme, and competition was restored by returning to price levels originally set by the market
It wasn't a stretch of the imagination to think that Apple would move into the ebooks market at some point, building on their success with music and apps. Does a competitor running a loss to preemptively lock out new market entrants count as anti-competitive behaviour?
A poster below offered two valid scenarios from opposite angles: 1) Prices were illegally raised by Apple and publishers colluding in an anti-competive way 2) Prices were artificially lowered by Amazon's pricing scheme, and competition was restored by returning to price levels originally set by the market
It wasn't a stretch of the imagination to think that Apple would move into the ebooks market at some point, building on their success with music and apps. Does a competitor running a loss to preemptively lock out new market entrants count as anti-competitive behaviour?