http://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...59a55c-bce3-11e2-89c9-3be8095fe767_story.html
In its pretrial arguments, Justice said publishers Hachette and HarperCollins came up with an agency model in which
publishers rather than retailers would set the prices consumers would pay for e-books.
Cue played the key role, Justice documents contend. He summarized meetings with publishers for Apples late CEO, telling Jobs that publishers, saw . . . the plus of the agency model and that it solves [the] Amazon issue, Justice quoted him as saying.
The company also quoted Jobs as telling biographer Walter Isaacson that Apple had told the publishers, Well go the agency model, where you set the price, and we get our 30 percent, and yes, the customers pays a little more, but thats what you want anyway.
Those statements, Justice said, demonstrated an illegal scheme that broke antitrust laws and harmed consumers.
Apple knew that the plan it was proposing involved a dramatic business change for publisher defendants, Justice wrote in its arguments. Accordingly, Apple kept each publisher defendant aware that it was orchestrating and coordinating a common approach for all of them.
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How would you feel if the manufacturers rather than the retailers setting the prices consumers would pay for TVs, fridge, laptops, Blu-Ray players, Blu-Ray movies etc...?