Given that the two retailers are competing with different price models, it seems to me that competition. The only way it could be remotely considered for antitrust litigation would be if the publishers colluded to cut out the retailer that uses the model they don’t like.
The problem is that if you use an ipad you get books for pennies, but anything else you pay the paper price for the book. Apple locked up that deal with publishers and cut everyone else out.
Amazon on the other hand has been running bookstores out of business by their pricing that delivers books to the door of your house cheaper or as cheap as stores can sell them off the shelf. Amazon has become the gorilla no one can compete with.
So, Apple versus Amazon seems a fair competition. We only need WalMart to get in the middle of it to have a tournament. :>)
That would be what they did. They forced Amazopn to go to Apple’s model.
the problem is the publishes and apple all conspired in a coordinated attack to fix the prices. No free market. The publishers wanted a guarantee set minimum price and apple colluded with them to create a anti-capitalist monopoly.
Apple colluded with the big publishing houses to put the screws to Amazon. They (the publishing houses) then sent out a press release about it.
Pretty stupid.
That is PRECISELY what Apple did!
Gheez, it ain't that hard to find the facts.