[jolohaga]

I think the conspiracy is really correcting a wrong. The publishers felt they made a mistake giving Amazon so much leverage, so early in the development of e-commerce. To assume that all e-commerce should develop in the open web model is ludicrous. This has to be obvious to some in Washington.

[revelation]

"The publishers" is not a group of happy friends. They are in the same market, they should be each others greatest enemy. The moment thats not the case, you can be sure there will be an anti-trust investigation. Anti-trust isn't about whats right or wrong or visionary or faulty, it's not even about whose responsibility it really is, if their actions created a situation where competition subsided and prices raised, theres damage and fault.

[MBCook]

> The moment thats not the case, you can be sure there will be an anti-trust investigation.

That was the case, there was an investigation. All the publishers quickly settled because they were caught colluding to use Apple to force Amazon to switch sales models.

[revelation]

You need to read the emails cited in the case. Apple was acting as ring leader, the publishers didn't get the idea and then used Apple.