Comment Re:"didn't appear likely to pose a threat" (Score 2) 204
Furthermore, despite all of the hand-wringing by
But I'm not surprised the publishing industry isn't already aware of this
But they ARE aware of it, thus their fight to move from the wholesale model that favors Amazon to the Agency model where they set their own retail prices. The problem (from Apple and the publisher's perspective) is that the regulators (and many here on the forums) are not paying attention to this ultimate end-game, and are only focusing on short term e-book prices and their potential to go down if Amazon is allowed to revert to the wholesale model.
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