The DOJ Charts the eBook Market Before & After Agency
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If you have ever doubted whether agency pricing resulted in an increase in ebook prices, I have a chart that should interest you.
The US Dept of Justice filed new docs this week in their case against Apple and its 5 co-conspirators. The filing is titled Plaintiffs Proposed Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, and this 103 page PDF lays out the arguments that the DOJ plans to make should this case go to trial.
The filing includes details on how the DOJ believes the conspiracy came about, and it includes emails that the various publishers sent to each other as well as other evidence.
Mixed in with the dry legal arguments were a number of charts which were created by Richard Gilbert. Hes the Emeritus Professor of Economics at Berkeley University, and his charts show how the average price of ebooks increased when the 5 publishers adopted agency pricing.