Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY)wrote an editorial for the Wall Street Journal about the US Department of Justice’s lawsuit against Apple over book-selling practices. I’m sure there must be some explanation for this lawsuit but it eludes me.
As I understand things:
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Amazon had a chokehold on digital distribution and was gleefully ramming it down the publishers’ throats.
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Apple, and others, entered the market and gave publishers more control over how they sold their books.
If anything, it seems that Amazon is the one being anti-competitive. It looks like Senator Schumer agrees with
me.