Ex-WSJ publisher: Apple’s 30% profit sharing ebook agency model is not a conspiracy
As Apple prepares to go to trial to fight the US Department of Justice’s claims that the Cupertino company conspired to fix ebook prices with publishers, former publisher of the Wall Street Journal L. Gordon Crovitz has an interesting oped in today’s paper which he says that Apple’s 30% profit sharing “agency model” with ebook publishers does not amount to the price fixing conspiracy that the DOJ accuses the company of. It is Crovitz’s contention (as I assume Apple will also argue the same in court) that the government’s assertion that the agency model is “inherently wrong” is false. The age…
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Ex-WSJ publisher: Apple’s 30% profit sharing ebook agency model is not a conspiracy
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