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Re: Not Proven: The DOJ suit Against Apple for eBook Pricing
Being a Librarian, I have been following all this for a while.
While it may not have been proven, the fact is that 3 of the Publishers have already settled so it means they chose not to contest the case.
It is unclear as to how any of this affects author royalties - which are usually pretty low to start with.
What I think is really going on is that as the publishing industry transforms into e-publishing, the traditional strengths that publishers have in terms of creating hard cover books and getting them distributed go away. There have been numerous examples of self-published or small independent publishers books hitting the top of the ebook charts without any of the traditional support promotions. This strikes terror in the hearts of the publishing company executives.
Agency pricing is popular with publishing executives because it pays for them.