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DOJ Response Again Stresses “Unmistakable Consumer Harm” From Agency Model Pricing

August 22, 2012
By Sarah Weinman

Filing late in the day on Wednesday evening, the Department of Justice responded to the latest wave of objections to the proposed ebook pricing settlement with the same disdain they have brought to any dissenting views through the Tunney Act process. Rather than addressing head-on the contention that the government has defined the relevant market too narrowly in looking at ebooks as things unto themselves (separate from ebook readers, and other elements of the book publishing market), the government answered by saying that every opponent of an antitrust action believes they are special. “While ebooks are a relatively new arrival […]

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