And Apple is claiming that the $10 eBook price actually promoted competition

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Apple-Macmillan-Department-of-Justice-Penguin-Ebook,news-14763.html

My care-bar doesn't seem to care...

But if this helps you in anyway, congratulations!

I don't have any thing to do with eBook so I could care less .

Virtual scarcity strikes again.

I wonder if a model can be created, something like this.

You sell the product for 50$. But you promise. You say, there is a deadline, say 3 months. And as the demand reaches 10.000.000 copies, it will cost less and less, down to 10$, even for the first buyers. If the demand comes short, it will cost where it stabilizes.

That's a nice promise on an AAA game. Basically, I think every AAA game should sell at least 10 million at the cost of 10$. Why not? I think with a model like this, game industry can reach 20 million copies on quality games easily.

I don't read eBooks but my wife does, and certainly this will be interesting in affecting the price of them should the DOJ prevail. I also looked at that pdf and saw the army of lawyers listed, thinking of giving law a second look.

I could only wonder then what astounding logic compelled you to even read the topic, never mind post.

Edit: vtastek does make a point about the logic (and economic) flaw of virtual scarcity.

Just stating my opinion that's all.

I use e-books and was pretty unaware of this. I guess I'm rooting against Apple.

'bout time.

About as useful as me doing the cool-aloof-kid routine, going into the MLP declaring how much I don't care for MLP. There's a barrier called logic that prevents me from doing that so as not to spam the forum up with useless nonsense.

Probably depends on the source you get eBooks from.

But in many cases megapublishers like this are really nothing less than price fixing which is a serious detriment to both consumers and competition. It's one of a very very few times I see the use of government intervening.

Meh. I'd rather see them sued for creating an artificial environment of forced use (you can only make ios apps on os x which can only run on their hardware and you must use Itunes for ios and icloud only works for their products too. It creates high costs for leaving their products as well as high,costs for not using all of their products). Combined with actively blocking other apps from being able to sync to ios and stopping other devices from syncing through iTunes makes for some serious anticompetitive behavior.

Edit: man, I really need to get in the habit of double-checking my posts for my phone's autocorrect screwing up.

And I didn't see them putting up price fixing with same reason against dominant for iPad. Hypocritics, they just don't want to see the fall of paperbacks.

However I'm not sure it damaged Amazon much. eBooks have their own special advantages no paperbacks could compete, a lot of folks would still buy them even when they are expensive, that means money still goes down Amazon/B&N pockets.

See createspace.com, amazon had already established strategy to counter publisher boycotts. They simply pulled off another Kickstarter for ebook sales.

Indeed. That should just be part of a broad alphabet soup of anticompetitive litigation really that includes this. Too bad.