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Re:​Apple gets smacked by $450M e-book price-fixing fine by fpgeek on Monday March 07, 2016 @10:06PM (#11243325)
I'd say it is even worse than that. The years of strict agency pricing trained people to not even bother looking at competing ebookstores, entrenching Amazon's dominance.
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Re:​Apple gets smacked by $450M e-book price-fixing fine by mcphage on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @11:55AM (#11246506)
> years of strict agency pricing

You mean the years of strict wholesale pricing?

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Re:​Apple gets smacked by $450M e-book price-fixing fine by fpgeek on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @12:04PM (#11246569)
No, I mean 2010-2013 when agency pricing made shopping across ebookstores a waste of time.
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